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If you think that violence started on October 7th, this report, written by 18 Israeli human rights organizations just 3 months ago, may help clarify.

Here is the executive summary. It's a quick read and a great overview of the harms of occupation:

yesh-din.org/en/state-of-the-o

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #HumanRights

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I am launching a new blog on Zionism, Israel & Palestine. I will be sharing my experience as someone who grew up Zionist, lived in Israel, and still has plenty of Zionist friends and relatives, and my thoughts on why Zionism is *inherently* incompatible with a just solution to the conflict.

The blog is called One Small Detail, in references to this quote by Yitzhak Epstein, who settled in Palestine in 1907.

Please check it out and subscribe at OneSmallDetail.org

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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Some of my work:
- Washington Post op-ed on why only external pressure can en Israeli apartheid: washingtonpost.com/opinions/20
- Newsweek op-ed on what police abolition could look like: newsweek.com/defund-police-not
- Horizontal, the tech & human rights org I founded: wearehorizontal.org
- Tella, our app to hide and encrypt files on your phone: tella-app.org
- CCLA, a collective I co-founded to paint crosswalks where the city of LA wouldn't: crosswalksla.org

(I should note that I actually made this suggestion, when some GPT was out but I hadn't yet used it in the first person: ceoln.wordpress.com/2020/08/22

On the other hand, it wasn't entirely a serious suggestion on my part; more meant to be provocative, on the theory that people would pretty much universally disagree!)

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Here's a thought that just came up while talking with friend Steve:

It could well be that billions of dollars of investment in the world have been redirected simply because someone decided that LLMs released to the public should speak in the first person.

I don't recall that anyone seriously suggested that AI Dungeon or NovelAI were going to be AGI. But talking to something in the first person has a *big* psychological impact, perhaps enough to overcome ordinary rationality (see for instance ELIZA).

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One thing that could be improved about , or at least 's version, is that if there's a thread going on and you reply to an item in it, and the person who wrote that item then blocks you, there is afaict no affordance at all to find the rest of the thread again...

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Then, enter the anger when it is an appropriate anger, something that expects a better world that exists for the thriving of, and cares for the needs of, everyone.

But always refuse to enter the rage.

armoxon.substack.com/p/channel

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Rage is punitive.

It has no answer to abuse but more abuse. It has no answer to violence but violence. It looks at a system that exists to consume people, notes that the system is consuming them, and then demands an even more predatory system, one that consumes somebody else first and worst.

Rage’s response to harm is to demand more harm. It's response to punishment is more punishment. Its response to a manufactured lack is to demand more lack.

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I really try to avoid hating people, but Eric Schmidt makes it tough....

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He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figured I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

I did in fact get to just over 36k!

And I have some ideas about an ending. Rather vague ones so far :

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OpenAI is the pure bullshit company.
Altman's contention that they are building "artificial superintelligence": Bullshit.
Board members' cult of effective altruism: Bullshit.
Output from the machine: Bullshit.
It's all hallucinations: Pure bullshit.

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