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Comment by metawrong on Ryan Kidd's Shortform · 2024-11-01T18:20:37.732Z · LW · GW

LASR (https://www.lasrlabs.org/) is giving a £11,000 stipend for a 13 week program, assuming 40h/week it works out to ~$27

Comment by metawrong on [deleted post] 2024-03-11T10:18:04.606Z

It's difficult to produce a counterargument when the main argument is 'trust me bro'

The main argument seems to be (except for the all caps BUY STONKS NOW):

>It is just very obvious that the market is erring

This is not obvious to me

Comment by metawrong on I'm a Former Israeli Officer. AMA · 2023-10-10T19:36:10.322Z · LW · GW

Thank you for doing this!

Few random questions, of course feel free to say as much or as little as you want:

Have you been personally to the Gaza strip (or the West Bank) ? If yes - what are your impressions? How do people live there? Is it common for regular (non-military) Jewish people to hang around those places? How common is for Palestinians to hang around outside of Gaza and the West Bank? How common is for Jewish and Palestinian people to mix in everyday life and interact?

I have just recently learned about the Gilat Shalit prisoner exchange (a single captured Israeli soldier was exchanged for over 1000 Palestinian prisoners). What do you think about that exchange?

What is your probability of the IDF knowing about the attack but still letting it happen? If it is near 0, what is your current best explanation for IDF being caught by surprise by such a massive attack?