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Extrapolating from that, I always find it amusing when people seem to have global politics figured out, not realizing that it's a complex dynamic system with hu
by curiousgal 8y ago
Extrapolating from that, I always find it amusing when people seem to have global politics figured out, not realizing that it's a complex dynamic system with hundreds if not thousands of agents at play, when they ,the very same people, would be lost watching a two-player poker game.
- wallace_f 8y agoBut how can we know if we should agree with your comment without knowing your political affiliation?
- latch 8y agoIt's concerning. People have strong opinions (bordering on it being a "fact") about places they've never been to (or near). They might have never even left their country. It isn't something they've studied, it isn't remotely related to their work. But they still _know_ how it is.
- abc-xyz 8y agoI shamefully lived in China for a long period, and almost every Chinese person I've talked to was either misinformed or oblivious to the kind of negative news you see discussed on HN. You can learn a lot, both negative and positive, about living in the country that you'd have no way of knowing if you hadn't been there (or done a lot of research), e.g. how foreigners are not allowed to stay at most cheapish hotels and will even be turned away from a lot of apartments. But by living in China then you're less likely to know about these news because if it isn't censored then you'll be exposed to their propaganda instead. And things are going to get much worse when the social credit system really kicks in and the citizens benefit from spreading propaganda.