#analysis / The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [2015]
Key Findings
Results of Economic Analysis of the Five Scenarios
[...] A return to violence would have profoundly negative economic consequences for both Palestinians and Israelis; per capita gross domestic product would fall by 46 percent in the West Bank and Gaza and by 10 percent in Israel by 2024.
The move also comes as the #Biden admin & #Congress are grappling w/how to push back on #China w/o tipping the 2 countries into open conflict, & w/how to reduce the risk that #AI is used to magnify #disinformation.
The impact of the Chinese campaign — identified by researchers from #Microsoft, #RecordedFuture, the #RANDCorp, #NewsGuard & the #UofMaryland — is difficult to measure, tho early indications suggest that few social media users engaged w/the most outlandish of the #ConspiracyTheories.
#RandCorp calls the technique that folks like #SamAltman & #SundarPichai are using to promote their companies “#TheFirehoseOfFalsehood”: flood the media
with provably false statements to agitate your targets & energize your base. It’s a denial-of-service attack on fact checking.
From: @emilymbender
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110217781189848621
Quick reaction thread to Sundar Pichai's appalling 60 minutes interview over the weekend. "More generally, any time a AI booster makes this move (“we don’t understand humans either”) they’re either trying to evade accountability or trying to sell their system as some mysterious, magical, autonomous being. Reporters should recognize this and PUSH BACK." https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/google-ceo-peddles-aihype-on-cbs-60-minutes-4a0e080ef406
@thedarktangent Great images.
That first diagram of centralised / decentralised / distributed networks is straight out of Paul Baran's 1964 work detailing the concept of packet-switched networks. You can get the original publications direct from the RAND Corporation, along with all his RAND works:
https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html
Of his other and later works, many concerned issues of privacy, surveillance, and discrimination made possible though computerised systems, showing remarkable prescience:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html
The full set was made publicly available free of charge after an inquiry I'd made a few years ago.
#PaulBaran #RandCorp #PacketSwitchedNetworks #Privacy #Surveillance #Networking
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