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stanfordkid commented on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]   bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8... · Posted by u/nathanyz
pegasus · a month ago
Was it clear? Did we always ignore it? Not convinced at all. All was and is not well in Palestine, but one thing I know, it ain't cut-and-dry, and Israel going all Hamas on Palestine doesn't make it so either.
stanfordkid · a month ago
Umm... it absolutely was cut and dry. 75 years ago a set of westerners came and occupied another country through massive, brutal and widespread violence all under the approval of western govt's that themselves felt massive guilt about the holocaust. The Israeli gov't pretended to give Palestinians rights all while calculatedly trying to suppress any legitimate form of gov't (read about Israels massive support of Hamas starting in the 80s because they believed they would have a tougher "negotiating position" against extremists... guess that backfired. They enforced apartheid, blockades, mass surveillance etc. naturally that resulted in resistance. Is resistance justified? Who cares. Is it a natural consequence of material conditions? Absolutely.

I have a friend who would say anytime someone brings up that "it's a complex issue": "They should just stop stealing peoples houses dude". This pretty much sums it up. Maybe if they stopped that a few decades ago this wouldn't have happened.

stanfordkid commented on More women than expected are genetically men (2016)   novonordiskfonden.dk/en/n... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
otterley · a month ago
What does "real" mean here?
stanfordkid · a month ago
It means two people of different races can have a baby together, but two people of the same sex cannot.
stanfordkid commented on I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe   stevensalzberg.substack.c... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
stanfordkid · a month ago
This a bone headed article… umm we can’t extract anything from it about your health (*now)… so might as well just spread it everywhere?

Like he doesn’t even go into the fact that it could be used by law enforcement wrongfully etc: e.g Unregulated Chinese crime detection startup buys the data, you happen to be in China and get arrested bc they used inadequate algorithms that wrongfully accused you.

There is absolutely nothing convincing here.

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stanfordkid commented on Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say   techcrunch.com/2024/12/12... · Posted by u/impish9208
stanfordkid · 9 months ago
The answer is to work with your bank to block payments. Equity is a legal contract, it's not going to evaporate because Carta says so. Carta isn't going to hire a debt collector against a well funded startup and get counter-sued / risk the bad PR.
stanfordkid commented on Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/zdw
ClumsyPilot · 9 months ago
> turn towards qualitative methods and epistemologies that are either misaligned with or explicitly reject the scientific method.

At least you can see their questionable method upfront, and can disagree with it.

Economics is worse: it has become completely quantitative, with sophisticated mathematics. I’ve heard the approach referred to as ‘physics envy’

It appears unapproachable to a non-expert and authoritative. But it’s not like physics

It’s conclusions are often catastrophically wrong because all the mathematics relies on shaky qualitative assumptions: people are perfectly rational, etc.

For example we have published economic research that forecasts that severe climate change will only damage global GDP by 1%.

They conclude that farming productivity will be reduced by 25% and farming is 4% of global GDP, so it’s 1%. Then they model some effect on the consumer because food prices go up.

It does not occur to the authors to model impact of physical result of that, which is, famine and political instability that comes with it.

stanfordkid · 9 months ago
This is the great illustration of the hokey thinking that happens in economics. They don't focus on modeling humans as agentic systems. What happens if GDP is pushed to 1000%, 10,000%? When there is so much agricultural production that food is free? How does that affect geopolitics, human social values and demands? It's clear to me the models completely breakdown and are really only epsilon valid (e.g okay for modeling small, but not catastrophic pertrubations)

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stanfordkid commented on Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI; they're being written out of history   theconversation.com/japan... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne
stanfordkid · 9 months ago
Is back propagation really an idea applicable to the Nobel prize in physics? I mean certainly a Turing award is warranted. But back propagation or neural networks don’t really tell us anything about how the universe works. It’s an efficient optimization algorithm for a really powerful class of models.
stanfordkid commented on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials   icc-cpi.int/news/situatio... · Posted by u/runarberg
bluGill · 9 months ago
You are assuming the court isn't a political thing that is trying to get him regardless of evidence. The court is at least partially political, and Netanyahu will tell you this is entirely political and he wouldn't get a fair trail.
stanfordkid · 9 months ago
There is indeed, as you state, political influence being exerted on courts. Most of that influence is in support of Israel and Netanyahu — do you really think there is significant political power and influence upon the ICC from Palestine or Hamas? Look at the amount AIPAC has contributed to pro-Israel politicians. It’s quite frankly absurd such a political organization exists under the guise of representing American Jews yet pretty much lobbies solely for Israeli geopolitical issues. Kennedy even tried to get it to register as a foreign agent. The fact that these warrants were issued despite the influence and leverage of Israel is a hint at how egregious the crimes are.

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