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Bryan Walker
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@upholdreality You don't have to beg the Chinese for deals. They're ready to do business usually.
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12 of the most powerful capitalists on Earth flew to Beijing today with the US president as their chaperone
To beg the Chairman of the Communist Party of China for deals
The Cradle@TheCradleMedia
US President Donald Trump lands in Beijing, and with him he brings the following CEOs to request "deals" with Chinese President Xi Jinping: – Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO – Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO – Tim Cook, Apple CEO – Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO – Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO – Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO – Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO – Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO – Larry Culp, General Electric CEO – David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO – Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO – Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO
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@TheStaad We'd break up into a series of Jane Jacobs-style city/hinterland-states with state lines serving as a loosely binding framework masking ever-changing alliances. Culturally, probably more aligned with Colin Woodard's American Nations map.
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@mehdirhasan I guess when the networks started sending not smart people.
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When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
TRUMP: We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. REPORTER: The price doubled TRUMP: I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. You are not a smart person.
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@LunaForTruth Yeah people complained about electricity too. Tale as old as time.
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@kbryanw @bcdsignature No. They don’t. It took thousands of years to “Discover” ai. No one saw it in nature afore time and said: hey, how can i replicate it.
That never happened.
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Can you imagine when humans first controlled fire?
Some said, “It makes food taste better.”
Others said, “So you want to risk burning the world for better food?
One million years later, we are having the same argument about AI.
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@jmhorp They haven't figured out how to make it useful to themselves yet, so they don't care.
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Amazing how quickly many conservatives have become democratic socialists on data centers. Sorry, this is America! We don't vote on how someone uses their private property.
Emerald Robinson ✝️@EmeraldRobinson
Nobody in America voted for data centers. Nobody in America voted for AI. Nobody in America voted for surveillance capitalism. The entire fabric of our society is being changed without the will of the people. Without a vote.
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@bcdsignature Baloney.
Faulty logic.
Fire is natural in nature and is uncreated by man by lightening.
Nothing in nature spontaneously creates ai.
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It's a little bit of a catch 22 because every expert had to have the terms explained to them in colloquial language the first time. Otherwise you wouldn't have non-experts become experts. Then you build on concepts, of course.
Might take a while to explain things in colloquial language but it can be done.
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This is the anti-intellectualism I was talking about because it’s not true for virtually any of the physical sciences. Yes sometimes you have to learn complex concepts in order to understand complex phenomena and sometimes this isn’t expressible in colloquial language!
Coren ✒🎨@CorenLaVolpe
Truly intelligent people can describe complex ideas in a way that a layman can understand. Being verbose is intentional obfuscation to maintain their little "elite" circle.
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@peoplesposting @WxPolitics15 No but if you understand it, you can.
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@kbryanw @WxPolitics15 Can you explain the color charge of fundamental particles without using specialist language (such as "color charge", for example)?
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@Mike975B @4thOfJuly365 Seems like most of the military is located in 7.
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@bumbadum14 If RAM gets expensive, it encourages more RAM production.
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So far this is the only reasonable argument I’ve heard against them.
Davisaar 🌲@Davisaar69
@bumbadum14 I’m anti-datacenter/AI because I’m gonna need a mortgage to build a new PC the way things are going
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@mattyglesias So what do you want them to do? Sell stock? Sabotage their companies?
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But conversely, while there is nothing wrong with building a great business and becoming extraordinarily wealthy there *is* something wrong with hoarding that wealthy for personal consumption or to pass to your kids.
slowboring.com/p/the-real-pro…
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I think it’s interesting that going back at least as far as Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain the go-to examples for this argument are always celebrity entertainers when obviously the vast majority of extreme wealth is either successful founders, successful investors, or their heirs.
Coleman Hughes@coldxman
Someone should ask AOC if Beyoncé earned her billion
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@tonyannett Nah. You can disagree, but libertarians believe that the most people will have the best life possible with liberty rather than control.
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Libertarians abhor society.
Moshik Temkin@moshik_temkin
When you don't understand the concept of Society
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How do you read things like this and not want them GONE
Pubity@pubity
A data center in Georgia used 30 million gallons of water illegally, and locals only noticed when their water pressure was abnormally low. The data center claimed it was an honest mistake, but locals were told by the town to conserve water while the data center kept running.
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it straight up never occurs to some people that there are some ideas that you can't really understand as a layman because they're too complicated. and it would be a bad thing to pretend otherwise and only pass down warped, extremely simplified versions of those ideas!
Coren ✒🎨@CorenLaVolpe
Truly intelligent people can describe complex ideas in a way that a layman can understand. Being verbose is intentional obfuscation to maintain their little "elite" circle.
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@VonMorph @romanhelmetguy Never mind. I see what you're saying.
He's better with history than economics.
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This is her dumbest take. Monopolies form naturally. Monopolies are much more profitable than competitive industries. So if you find yourself in a competitive industry, it makes sense to buy out or collude with all your competitors, or to temporarily take a loss in order to drive them out of business. The government itself is a naturally-forming monopoly on violence. Ayn Rand is frequently guilty of this kind of magical thinking in which everything would be perfect if the government just disappeared. Well, there are still large parts of Africa today in which there is effectively no government. Is it utopia? Meanwhile the Industrial Revolution could not have taken place without the financial incentives put in place by intellectual property law such as patents, which require an incredibly strong government to enforce. The right really needs to get away from this whole “everything the government does is bad” loser mindset.
Sowell Economics@sowelleconomics
Ayn Rand: "Under a free system, no one could acquire a monopoly on anything. If you look at economics, and economic history, you will discover that all monopolies have been established with government help."
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i genuinely do not understand this reasoning. What do people think we did before capitalism? like the labor people did for their own basic necessities was... just not slavery somehow? like the default state of nature is lounging peacefully on the ground eating berries?
Idalis !@IdalisReign
@JMary64u everything we do under capitalism or an exchange of labor/bodies for currency and basic necessities is slavery.
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@d4nnytye Because humans are the subject of the study, it's ethical to explain to them in a way they can understand.
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nobody ever applies this argument to any other academic field of study besides humanities and social sciences. why should all theory have to be written for complete novices, and why should novices not be expected to broaden their vocabulary?
Coren ✒🎨@CorenLaVolpe
Truly intelligent people can describe complex ideas in a way that a layman can understand. Being verbose is intentional obfuscation to maintain their little "elite" circle.
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