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by zarkov99 6y ago
Could you elaborate on what your point is? I am an American and I trust the American government to look out for my interests a lot more than I do the Chinese. In fact I have no problem at all with Schmidt's efforts to accelerate AI usa
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How is it factually incorrect?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am not sure preferences are as inscrutable as you imply when you can monitor every conversation, every social media interaction, every email exchange, every Baidu search. In fact I am pretty sure they aren't.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Ah yes, as an American, I should be more scared of Google than the benevolence of the CCP. That makes sense. Thanks Jacobin for such an unbiased take.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I often wonder if these advancements in information processing now allow for centrally planned economies to compete with free market ones. What would have happened if the USSR had all the tools we have today for monitoring and computation?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Be aware that a lot of that business is ultimately controlled by the drug cartels.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
It is on heck of a problem. We need two things to solve it. We desperately need networks of trusted institutions or experts to which we can offload some of the fact checking and individually we need to become much more skeptical about the i
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Don't you think that the people in Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal,etc, are better of for having accomplished an effective and relatively short-lived quarantine? In the US the choice did not have to be between ind
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Shhh, we do not talk about such things.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Oh, yes, sure, I was not really distinguishing posts from comments. Either works by attracting the attention of others in a public setting. In that context the effects of both praise and reproach are amplified enormously and otherwise sane
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by zarkov99 6y ago
yes, but it all changes the moment one posts something, no matter how inane. Then narcissism makes it almost impossible to stop checking it.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
First of all let me say I appreciate your civility and candor and that I believe you, and your friends, truly believe that your choice is honorable and just. However, consider that many, many people do not have the same privileges of the ty
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by zarkov99 6y ago
If anything should unite Americans now is utter and universal contempt for the institutions that failed us in navigating this crisis. The government, the media, the opposition, even parts of the medical community. The health of both the peo
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by zarkov99 6y ago
And no one principled would object to that if the risk was indeed personal. It is not, obviously, and the people protesting surely know it, so if you have a shred of intellectual honesty that noble narrative cannot possibly hold. The real t
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Bring what up? That we are being pushed into suicidal stupidity by our allegiance to our political team? I rather think it is worth to bring it up, so that perhaps we all can do it a little less. Debating who exactly is the most to blame is
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I have an opinion of course, but I am not interested in debating which side has done dumber things. It is impossible to discuss that issue productively.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
yes, and in my opinion, this is one of the factors behind the abysmal pandemic response from the country as a whole. Bad ideas become good ideas if they come one's team and good ideas become bad if they are not. As a result both halves
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes, but that is a feature of the human race which is exacerbated, when it should be sublimated, by the way that FB works. Long, thoughtful posts are discouraged through lack of proper editing tools, deep narcissism is nurtured via "li
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You are right, that is the central point. We have not been able to scale the small scale interactions our species evolved with to include thousands, let alone millions of people. Perhaps its impossible to do this, with brains such as ours.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Eça, is in my opinion, wrote the best novel available in the Portuguese language, "The Maias". I am not sure how good the English translation is, but he Portuguese original is sublime, especially if you are familiar with Portugues
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by zarkov99 6y ago
That is a good list, I would Antonio Lobo Antunes as well,
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Eca de Queiroz is my personal favorite. Luis de Camoes, which many compare to Shakespeare, is maybe the greatest of Portuguese poets.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I’m curious as well, what did Kissinger do that puts in the same category as Milosevic?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is not my experience at all. I see the gap much more related to identifying and streamlining the real use cases, the things people really want out of the software, as opposed to whatever un-tethered flights of fancy originally drive th
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by zarkov99 6y ago
True, but you also have no recourse if the transaction was fradulent, done under duress or an error.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Maybe not as much left wing as rabidly anti Trump, beyond any semblance of reason. Even worse is their unrelenting amplification of divisive issues, especially on race and gender, always favoring the same side.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
But Fauci himself straight out admitted that was the intention, did he not?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
If you took cnn off the air there would be a lot less rioting and racial tension. The madness isn't exclusive to the right.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
> Democrats' Trust in Media Highest in Past 20 Years Confirmation bias is a real thing.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Would you accept "trust in the media" as one such measure of decline? If so here: https://news.gallup.com/poll/243665/media-trust-continues-re... Maybe we can get past that issue though. I understand you

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