Yovel Rom

• Yovel Rom 2 Sep 2025 6:24 UTC

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  on: Gen­er­a­tive AI is not caus­ing YCom­bi­na­tor com­pa­nies to grow more quickly than usual (yet)

  Thanks for the interesting post!

  I do think you have a mistake, though: Wiz is not a GenAI company. They do vanilla cloud cybersecurity. IIRC they started seriously recruiting for their ML team only in 2023, when it was already a decacorn.

• Yovel Rom 12 Oct 2023 16:59 UTC

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  in reply to: Linch’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  Thanks for your concern! As a private citizen I don’t know of much you can personally do (I struggle to find such things myself).

  I think the most pressing concern is to force Egypt to open a humanitarian corridor from the Gaza strip, so that refugees can run away from the battlezone, saving their lives and making the war easier for Israel. So far, they have refused. Serious international pressure on them might help. I had a short discussion about this in a parallel post in Less Wrong, and I think this is one of the highest life saving interventions right now.

  In addition, in recent days there started efforts to deny the massacre of last Saturday. Since some of it was streamed on Tik Tok, Telegram and more, and some are deleted in effort to destroy evidence, high ranking managers in social media companies who could prevent that and preseve the evidence would be immense help.

• Yovel Rom 11 Oct 2023 17:52 UTC

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  in reply to: titotal’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  A very good question, with no good answer. If I knew one I would be advising the prime minister, not writing on this forum :)

  I imagine a model closer to the West Bank, where there’s some joint Israeli- Palestinian control. It’s not great, but way better than the current situation in Gaza, and hopefully might de- escalate somewhat the situation. In such case the blockade will probably be lifted, and Gaza might get some actual economic development.

• Yovel Rom 11 Oct 2023 17:40 UTC

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  in reply to: Davidmanheim’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  I agree there’s no endgame. I’m working on a long answer explaining why that’s not too terrible.

• Yovel Rom 11 Oct 2023 17:37 UTC

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  in reply to: Davidmanheim’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  The Hamas holds 56% of the Palestinian Legislative Council seats, elected democratically in 2006. Neither Presidency nor legislative council elections have not been held since 2006, because Hamas would win them.

  What evidence do you have for a silent, peaceful majority?

• Yovel Rom 11 Oct 2023 6:54 UTC

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  in reply to: titotal’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  Israeli Arabs already have that, as a minority inside a jewish country.

  As for the West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians: Not really. I think too many of them literally want to kill all the jews, and their education system encourages that (Hebrew Wikipedia, sorry) even in the West Bank which is considered more moderate. The Palestinian Authority pays handsome salary (Hebrew Wikipedia again) to every terrorist for every person they kill, be they military or civilian.

  I think when enough people want peace we will get it, one way or another. Until then we will get one semi- stable bad equilibrium after the other.

• Yovel Rom 10 Oct 2023 20:01 UTC

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  in reply to: NickLaing’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  Not easy, but personally I don’t see an alternative, as seems to be a growing concensus. Whether it’s possible we’ll have to see.

• Yovel Rom 10 Oct 2023 20:00 UTC

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  in reply to: NickLaing’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  As Yonatan said, I answered in that comment. You’re more than welcome to add follow- up questions here.

• Yovel Rom 10 Oct 2023 19:56 UTC

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  in reply to: Ebenezer Dukakis’s comment on: I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

  Israel would be very much in favour, and would pay quite a lot of money. At least 10% of our annual 125 billion $ defense budget goes to protect from the Gaza strip specifcally.

  Palestinians would not accept that, since they very much do want the specific land, and not an improved quality of life. Also I’m not actually sure they will get it in a landlocked desert, but that’s besides the point.

  Forced population tranfer is considered a crime against humanity and is not an option currently on the table.

  Paying every immigrant actually has been a suggestion, mainly from the far right. It’s considered close enough to forced population transfer that it’s not mainstream, and I’m not sure how many takers you’ll have. Also countries tend to not actually want Gazan immigrants.

I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA