It's funny.
In my failing democracy people are convinced the solution is a two party system like the US (we have a parliament with a large amount of parties)
Somehow I have a feeling the problem is not the system, but the culture...
I think the motivation for someone like Altman is not AGI, it's power and influence.
And when he wields billions he has power, it doesn't really matter if there's AGI coming.
So averages and social dynamics map exactly to individuals?
"Race" is so undefined it's just silly to argue about. We are tremendously more similar than different. We have a visual bias, so a difference in skin color will dominate all other similarities. Then we go and theorize about other differences when we start our division from this arbitrary difference. This is lazy thinking. And a lot of the time is used for hate mongering against some "other".
Of course cultures have different set of values, and this influences the aggregate decisions of the individuals, but taking the next step and forecasting and analyzing a single individual by projecting sociatal bias on them is dehumanizing, and as recent history taught us, is dangerous.
If Israel is alien to the region, so are Arabs which is what Palestinians are.
That's nonsense.
The Jewish people have a long (2000years) of calling Israel territory as home. Does it mean I deny the Palestinians national claim, no. But it sure as hell mean Jews have a claim atleast as much as Arab immigrants and conquerers
You domknownthat Palestinians are mostly Arabs and not native to the region.
The Israeli founders accepted the UN partition resolution. all Arab countries attacked Israel to destroy and create their pan Arabian fantasy.
In the 90s Israel initiated the peace process and gave self rule to the Palestinians with an end goal to create a Palestinian state. Hamas decided to send suicide bombers to bomb Israeli busses killing thousands.
This caused a massive shift right in israeli politics. And gave power to those saying we can't afford to give land. I don't agree with them.
Alas hamas killed that one in The 90s when they decided to send suicide bombers to Israeli busses during the peace process that Israel initiated.
Also Israel accepted the two state solution in 1948, alas all Arab countries decided to attack the newly idndependent country.
Saying "we" stole the land is a bit odd. The arabs leaving in Israel didn't call themselves Palestinians until after 1948.
Israel is not in the Arab peninsula, arabs living here came from there, hence they are Arabs.
I still support their right to their national claim. But pretending it's some ancient construct that "we" stole from is not historical. Palestinian nationalism is a modern construct.
So you want Israel to cease to exist?
Germany did the Holocaust, nobody said Germany can't exist.
Russia attacks Ukraine in an emperialistic power move, no one suggest Russia shouldn't exist.
But Israel is a "project" that needs to end. More like a scape goat.
I'm israeli. This war is bad, my government is evil. But I deserve to have a nation to call home, so do the Palestinians.
If you disagree with me, think about it a bit and what it says about you.
Sry lack of new houses doesn't seem like a cause for homelessness.
Of you can't afford a house in the big city, you move to a smaller one.
The problem is lack of a working welfare infrastructure. People become homeless because they're unlucky and once they're down, it's almost impossible to get back up.. it's a failure of state at so many levels. Real estate development is the least of them
Somehow I have a feeling the problem is not the system, but the culture...