while it would be very sad if the jewish people of israel were driven from their land i would view the aftermath in the region with a certain kind of amusement as aid dollars cratered and the palestinians quickly realize they have no ability whatsoever to run a normal society
within ten years as they starved and bled and died at their own hands they might even come to look back fondly on their time in an "open air prison" when they could blame other people for the problems that, fundamentally, had always been their own
three quarters of a century since they lost a stupid war and they've wasted every moment of it
thats not what im saying at all
in fact, as events have demonstrated not even the jews can fix them
theyve had control of gaza for nearly two decades and all theyve done with it is leech aid from developed countries and cannibalize their existing infrastructure while firing shitty rockets at a neighbor that could wipe them from existence in an instant
while some are quote tweeting me angrily and accusing me of wicked thoughts no one has provided any evidence of palestinian competence in any civilized avocation
if they ever catch the car theyve been chasing theyre screwed. fin
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there's an acemoglu paper studying the impact of the ADA on employment rates of disabled people
the empirics arent that interesting but during the setup he points out with a toy model that it's not obvious what direction the net effect ought to be
the issue is that tho on the margin it makes discrimination against disabled people more costly by creating a liability for such discrimination, it also makes employing them more costly for the same reason
eg if such a hire underperforms, firing them might not be worth the risk
if you're a public figure and you find yourself fired, i can imagine it might be tempting to use the occasion to lash out at your erstwhile employer
this is a terrible idea if you ever want to work again, partly because it signals to potential employers that you are a liability
if you have an authority above you, you're not sovereign, you're a vassal at best
i don't think this is controversial?
all international law that matters afaik is the result of treaties that are implemented in the legal codes of local sovereigns so idk what this dudes deal is
it is unfortunately probable that AI will cage a large portion of the world in a kind of totalitarian serfdom the likes of which has never been seen and far beyond the darkest nightmares of orwell
consider maoist china or the soviet union under lenin
of course they would have _liked_ to have a commissar in every home, but that is insanely expensive, and good commissars are hard to come by in any case
AI solves this
these countries of course were already totalitarian and so the only limit was the availability of technology to implement such an outcome
what of more liberal nations with limited government? surely they would never voluntarily do this to themselves?