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From one piece Three types of literature regarding the world of AI 2 beliefs · branko2f7.substack.com
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The more one believes AI may cause unspecified unpredictable problems, the stronger the case for state control of it.Their words
The more we believe that IA may cause non-specified and unpredictable problems, the stronger the argument for its control by the state.
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Income of capitalists is likely to increase because AI companies are owned by actual people and these people, like shareholders in general, are well-off. Thus the rise in the capital share also means rising incomes of the rich and higher inequality of income.
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China as a System @leonliaoTheir words
One of the very few Substacks that indeed deals with China "as a system". Not what you might find elsewhere.
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That reckless expansion is particularly dangerous because it lacks an end point.
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The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from HistoryTheir words
It is a quick read, an excellent book whose main virtue is not, in my opinion, direct analogy with the World War I, but a treatment of how in a multipolar world relatively small international events, misunderstandings, idiosyncratic fits of leaders, “hubris and fear” (as Westad often writes), resentment of the elite and of the public prodded by the media, can produce colossal miscalculations which then produce even more colossal wars and, in the era of the weapons of mass destruction, may end the civilization.
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From one piece On European hypocrisy and warmongering 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Prolonging the war in Ukraine courts a nuclear escalation whose risk is being treated as though it were zero.Their words
Not only is the idea of an endless war immoral, but it plays with an immense risk of nuclear escalation.
On European hypocrisy and warmongeringbranko2f7.substack.com
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Such, indeed fragile, peace not only puts an end to today’s carnage, but leaves open a possibility of eventual long-term solution between Russia and Ukraine.
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Small European states can demand a war with Russia only because they assume somebody else will fight it.Their words
It is also hypocritical because it is based on the assumption that somebody else (in this case, the United States) will fight for them.
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The Nordic-Baltic warmongering under the current conditions is therefore (i) irresponsible, (ii) hypocritical, (iii) immoral, and (iv) flirts with a disaster of immense proportions.
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From one piece A self-absorbed giant 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.Their words
It surely does not “produce” one quarter of world culture or intellectual activity (if the latter is defined as influential books, of fiction and non-fiction, politics, history; films, plastic arts, music, theater etc.)
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China had more ideological influence in the world during the Cultural Revolution than it has today.Their words
Paradoxically, China might have had more soft power when it followed self-destructive policies of Maoist Cultural Revolution.
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China's economic success has produced no transferable blueprint that other poor countries could follow.Their words
China’s tremendous success had not resulted in a blueprint that could be followed from Afghanistan to Zambia on how to become rich in four decades.
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Chinese writers' preoccupation with China alone is what limits China's soft power abroad.Their words
To come to my key point: this self-concentration limits China’s ideological influence in the rest of the world and its soft power.
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Peace and WarTheir words
I am quoting Raymond Aron, who wrote a very important book published in the 1960s called Peace and War
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