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    Somewhat uncharacteristically, I don’t think I have the energy for a knock-down-drag-out fight on this subject, even though I find…

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    The risks are real. https://x.com/DKokotajlo/status/2099601843131478030 https://x.com/paulfchristiano/status/2097733214303645729 https://thezvi.substack.com/p/jacob-coxon-warns-of-human-extinction

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    I don’t have much to say beyond: (1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and (2) I am appalled…

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    I don’t think focusing on the label matters so much for answering the question. Substitute “artificial intelligence’, if you don’t…

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Israel/Gaza links for November 16

"If Gaza was in your city, how much would be destroyed?"  Some gripping visuals, to drive home the scale of the destruction.

"Does Israel have the [legal] right to defend itself [under international law]?"   An international law scholar brings out the surprising difficulties of the question.

There's more to "massive state violence" than the question of what is lawful.

Support of American citizens for Israel is declining amidst assault on Gaza.  In an actual democracy this might lead to a change in policy!  We'll see…

How U.S. employment law might protect some of those being penalized for their anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian views.  It will be an uphill battle.  As the memo notes, private employers can, in principle, punish their employees for their political speech with impunity.

125,000 Israelis displaced from their homes near the Gaza and Lebanon borders.

While it's not in dispute that Hamas uses civilians and civilian locations as "shields" for its operations, Israeli troops have not produced evidence that a Hamas command center was located under a major Gaza hopsital.

October 7 was not Israel's 9/11, and Israel's invasion of Gaza is not like the invasion of Afghanistan.  This is clearly written from the perspective of Israeli interests.

 

 

 

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