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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by gambiting on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:16PM (#39921764)
Israeli officials are constantly being asked "how many dead palestinians is too many" in this conflict, and the answer has explicitly been "there is no such thing" way too many times. There is no upper limit on how many people can be killed to further their goals.

The most upsetting(for me) thing is reports of all the kids killed by snipers and just in general, as a father I cannot imagine losing my child to this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestini...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/23/israel...

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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by Angostura on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:25PM (#39922624)
Has any combatant in any armed struggle ever given a clear answer to that question?
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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by roywiggins on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:29PM (#39923420)
If you multiply out the number of targets that Lavender generated by the number of acceptable civilian deaths per target, you get a number that is ~40% of all Gazans.
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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by cutemonster on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:07PM (#39936943)
And if killing that many, there'd be many times more severely wounded/impaired, meaning, everyone
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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by gambiting on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:33PM (#39922716)
Journalists aren't asking combatants - they are asking politicians in the Israeli government.

Because there has to be a number, right? Is 30k dead palestinians too many? Is 50k? is 200k? How about all of them?

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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by Angostura on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @07:26PM (#39924680)
Ny combatants, I meant the political entites fighting - in this case that would be the state of Israel and Hamas.
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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by lupusreal on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:07PM (#39922410)
> Israeli officials are constantly being asked "how many dead palestinians is too many" in this conflict, and the answer has explicitly been "there is no such thing" way too many times

That's because what they're doing is ethnic cleansing, calculated to be just slow enough to not bug out domestic and foreign (particularly American) support.

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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by majikaja on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:14AM (#39926458)
Those children are just cockroaches to a large portion of the Israeli population
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