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Digging tunnels with nukes sounds better to me than shooting them at each other!

All you need is a elephants foot burning into the ground and a way to direct it via partial cooling..

You saw pictures of a hospital.

This must be the definition of pedantry. The point is *Israel deliberately destroyed an unconscionable number of hospitals, killing enormous amounts of real-life civilian people, actual humans like you and I. People with daughters, husbands, friends, people who were just as valuable as anyone else.


Pictures of a basically untouched hospital. The destruction is way overstated.

And let's look at the numbers. Hamas numbers are fantasy but let's pretend they're accurate. ~70k. I have not seen anyone contesting the Israeli database being combatants. ~9k. Note that even granting the most extreme claims this is still better than what western powers typically do--and it's in an unevacuated urban environment which is the worst case.


You might be the only person on the Internet still inexplicably defending the Israeli government on this.

I'm very confused about where you're going with this. Are you upset that too many rich people are getting audited, or that tax cheats under 400k income might also get audited?

Biden's desired policy was none of the additional funding would be used to increase audit rates for <$400k returns.

The IRS didn't follow the intended policy, getting bogged down in the details of how they would define that threshold (primarily, would somebody who understated their income to get below the threshold count as "under 400k and audited").

Not really sure why the OP is so upset - either way, the payback on additional funding to the IRS is almost universally stated as revenue-positive.


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Some divorce laws seem to have the goal of being fair on average no matter what happens in many cases. Other laws seem to desire fairness in a few cases while causing unfairness in many more.

In California now, If you don’t understand why there are so many false claims of domestic violence at the beginning of a custody battle you may be in for a world of hurt.

In the case of someone I know, the wife’s notes from a meeting with a prospective attorney included “DVRO=$”

DVRO is Domestic Violence Restraining Order. For 10 months he only saw his kids with 3rd party supervised visitation costing $100 per hour.


But how did he find out about that line?

If he was intentionally reading the notes his wife took of attorney meetings regarding their divorce, you may want to consider the possibility that the DVRO was genuinely sought.


I wonder the opposite, if actual AGI would need to be less aligned. Alignment is basically the process of pruning interesting behavior out of the model to make a product.

>ISP is to only transfer IP packets

This is a fine aspiration but not at all reflected in reality.


Current practices aren't limits to possibilities.

Yes, like walking out into the woods before it gets too bad.

It's interesting how much the home automation folks are relearning the lessons that industrial automation people have been writing down for a century about how to manage information displayed to a busy human.

Let me know when you have a camera package with human eye equivalency.

This is silly. Cameras are cheap. Have both. Sensors that sense differently in different conditions is not an exotic new problem. The kalman filter has existed for about a billion years and machine learning filters do an even better job.

Cameras are cheap, but, as I understand:

1) it's not cheap to produce lidars at a stable predictable quality in millions;

2) car driving training data sets for lidars are much scarcer (and will always be much scarcer due to cameras' higher prevalence) and at a much lower quality;

3) combined camera+lidar data sets are even scarcer.


Doesn’t that make it a sensible long term play to equip your car with $200 LIDAR and start gathering that data as a competitive advantage?

Yeah, this is all about Musk not wanting to admit he was wrong.

> 1) it's not cheap to produce lidars at a stable predictable quality in millions;

It wasn't cheap to produce accelerometers at a stable predictable quality in millions before smart phones either. Mass production shakes things up somewhat. See the headline for reference.


1. Automotive LiDAR is down to $350 in China already. BYD is starting to put LiDAR in even entry level cars. (It's been in their mid and high end cars for a while).

2+3. BYD collects extensive training data from customers, much like Tesla does. They will have no trouble with training.


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