Romans called barbarians anyone who is not from the Roman Empire, I don't think Israel thinks any better of its Muslim neighbors. And Jews had pretty bad experience under the Roman Empire in then called Judaea and now Palestinians have pretty bad experience under Israel. Palestinians are Jews of the Islamic world as well as Kurds.
The Romans never referred to the Greeks, Jews or Egyptians as barbarian. If they did it certainly wasn't with great frequency.
It almost always targeted at the tribal Anglo, Celtic or Germanic peoples. And in these circumstances it was really an insult at their style of government rather than their ethnic identity.
How so? Double standards for the only Jewish state seems like a pretty clear example of antisemitism, at least.
(It's usually difficult to decisively prove that someone is applying a double standard, but I think here we're assuming that was somehow firmly established.)
On that one (and many of the Israel-related ones) I think the problem is that it implicitly assumes that because you do, you do it because of antisemitism.
But I could have double standards for all type of countries! I tend to hold the US at a higher standard than most countries for almost anything, and I think everyone holds Germany to a much higher standards with respect to minority rights (particularly, Jews) than other countries.
I think people overindex on Israel as "the only Jewish state", and less as "just another country". I wish we could entirely separate the identity of the Jewish people and the state of Israel at least in the discourse. It would make everything healthier.
All of the mentioned bullet points could be applied to other countries.
While I think there's quite a lot of antisemitism out there, I find it questionable trying to deduce antisemitism. Explicitly expressed antisemitism itself is something else. I also find it very questionable to redefine the term that it includes deductions.
If there's some universal principle underlying your treatment of the US, I wouldn't really call that a double standard, assuming the principle is based on things like economic or military capabilities and not race, national identity, etc.
Or fail entirely to punish those who destroy democracies in other places... If democracy was a highest value, each time this should result in highest punishment.
I have to say I very much agree with you. I think you learn a lot more about empires and resources with Civ than whatever Duolingo telling you it is for.
I am so excited about diffusion language models. They may be the piece we need to make our voice-to-code game mechanic be as smooth as we envision it.
Cerebras and Groq are amazing, but the fact that they use custom hardware really limits the ability to finetune or scale. The other route would be an MoE that has barely 0.5b parameters active, but that would be a major undertaking that we can't prioritize at the moment.
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If anyone at Google/Deepmind reads this, please give us API access.
We are building generative sandbox games. First title is a monster trainer where you get to actually command your creature in realtime, here is an early prototype: https://youtu.be/BOwpLyj2Yqw
> The counter factual to reducing trade isn’t that we would manufacture the equivalent amount of goods here and be just as rich.
> It’s that we would be poorer. And certain goods would cease to exist, and all of us would have to learn to live with less because it’s simply infeasible to manufacture everything here.
This should be in billboards all over the US. I don't get what is so hard to understand.
Globalization made us all richer and gave us the luxury to pursue new technology.
Self-sufficiency points towards subsistence farming.
As a developer, you probably want to access to the right models for your app rather than being locked in.
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