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14 October
Two cheers for the architecture Quoting @TheCougChron BREAKING: BYU President Shane Reese reveals first look at new BYU School of Medicine to be built west of University Avenue and Cougar Boulevard. That white Americans and Indian Americans are about par on this metric should not surprise anyone. Quoting @zagrebbi Here's a much better graph of white-collar crime by ethnicity: Per white-collar worker, every group out-frauds whites, except for one... non-Muslim South Asians! This is gonna break a lot of people's brains America
12 October
This is a meaningful shift in the term’s definition Quoting @policycn New quality productive forces (NQPF) has been Beijing’s shorthand for growth beyond property since 2023. The new document defines the term, making total factor productivity the core benchmark. Traditional industry counts. Duplicate local investment does not. Blind investment gets accountability. so…
10 October
Is this the new line now? Quoting @carlworker Complicit in setting Hong Kong alight to get re-elected. What an example! I have never read and her and have refrained from commenting for that reason. Give me three places to start. Quoting @augustjsmith Carson winning the Nobel after writing 85 beautiful books about antiquity: I suppose that's fine. thank you. people who have read 3 poems in the past decade: I've always despised the prose of her verse. Also our culture has rejected Beauty. Reading the statue avatars’ response to the Carson win, I am curious: who exactly is the based choice for the Nobel Lit prize? Which living authors do you personally think deserve it? + 2 more Often, a scholar leaves a PhD a more careful thinker yet a worse writer. For good reason: you write as you read. the prose ingested by academics is not marked by beauty, clarity, or power. Which discipline bucks the trend? What field of study regularly creates superb writers? writing
On the debacle with Canada: Causes are many, but the most important was the election of Carney himself on a “stand up against America” platform. That was not inevitable or even likely. Cagney was elected solely because of the President’s memes. America
30 September
Completely wrong. Healthy discourse only possible in walled spaces. Quoting @tracewoodgrains I kind of loathe how common blocking is on this site tbh it can't be healthy to have, as a standard and commonly used part of online interaction, "cut someone off forever without explanation and never engage with them in any way"
25 September
I just don’t see it. Americans are generally far too risk adverse and cowardly. This aspect of our culture should be stamped out not incited. Vast majority of students will not come close to risking detention. More likely to get a gruesome disease in the developing world than locked away in China. Academic freedom doesn’t matter. Students can swallow restrictions on academic freedom for a semester and see what that feels like. They will learn something from the experience. They must understand that going to China means temporarily sacrificing certain freedoms—freedoms of association, speech,… Quoting @henrysgao My two cents: 1. Understanding China is undeniably important, but taking on heightened risks of arbitrary detention makes little sense today. 2. Even if Washington could negotiate protections against outright detention, could it ever secure an exemption for students who speak their minds? Academic… China America
24 September
This is a bit cute. Haywood has multiple book reviews where he rejects—in an intellectual way, but nevertheless rejects—the American Revolution and its goals, constitutionalism, and Straussianism. He sees them all as dead ends. There is much daylight between Haywood and Jaffa, and it’s a bit silly to pretend that there isn’t. Haywood’s ideas are not in code, or shared only in secret! They are openly declared for anyone to read. Do not insult our intelligence. Quoting @RpwWilliams In which I respond to the insinuations and hysteria exhibited in Erick Erickson’s “expose.” Last week, blogger @EWErickson maligned the Claremont Institute, one of our donors, and a few of our fellows and alumni, relying substantially on guilt-by-association smears and innuendo. 1/x America
I question this view: “[sending US students to China] allows them to surveil and shape some of the Americans they're most interested in surveilling and shaping” This is true but just how much does it matter? If we have to weigh the risks and balances of sending future China analysts/scholars/policy makers to China, this trade off clearly seems to our advantage? IMHO America has gained more from my personal experience in China than the MSS has gained from whatever dossier they put together from observing my activities there. Quoting @JacquelineNDeal This new @CFR_org "Expert Take" on student exchanges with China is so flawed I had to read it twice to find something nice to say. Here goes: At least the authors acknowledge that American students who travel to China need protection, and that the CCP should immediately release detained academics s… China America
23 September
Comment on the Greenland deal: As long as NATO exists this simply codifies explicitly items which were always implicitly granted. The real significance of the deal is that it keeps all of these things in force were the alliance to fall apart. Let the reader understand. war
This is silly. Mao did not retire the term “主席” — or Xi would not allow it to be used so widely! And that is the reason McFaul wants people to use the term they use in China, just as it is the reason Han wants us not to use it. It establishes continuity one wishes us to remember and the other wishes us to dismiss. This is a matter of connotation not denotation, and in both languages the word “chairman,” when applied to a national leader, has a Maoist flavor. In the Chinese system this is a boon: it connotes authority, prestige, and a commitment to China’s communist heritage; in the United Sta… Quoting @W_T_Han It's not as tho the word "president" confers unique legitimacy just bc it happens to be the title of US head of state. Assad was president, Saddam was president, Putin is president, Zelensky is president, Macron is president: it's just a word. US usage of president comes from Washington presiding o… China
This is silly. Mao did not retire the term “主席” — or Xi would not allow it to be used so widely! And that is the reason McFaul wants people to use the term they use in China, just as it is the reason Han wants us not to use it. It establishes continuity one wishes us to remember and the other wishes us to dismiss. This is a matter of connotation not denotation, and in both languages the word “chairman,” when applied to a national leader, has a Maoist flavor. In the Chinese system this is a boon: it connotes authority, prestige, and a commitment to China’s communist heritage; in the United Sta… Quoting @W_T_Han It's not as tho the word "president" confers unique legitimacy just bc it happens to be the title of US head of state. Assad was president, Saddam was president, Putin is president, Zelensky is president, Macron is president: it's just a word. US usage of president comes from Washington presiding o… China
+ 1 more I have been thinking about this ever since I read @tylercowen’s recent book. The history Tyler narrates there explains why economists welcome AI eclipse of human agency: as a field they have already surrendered understanding to the algorithms. Quoting @ZachWeiner Artists: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Mathematicians: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Economists: LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY, AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES! agency economists
21 September
Walt Whitman on AGI: I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I an encloser of things to be. My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly travel’d, and still I mount and mount. Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Long I was hugg’d close—long and long. Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and fri… AGI
20 September
On that last point — I have a vivid memory of talking with a BJP politico type in Bangalore who was absolutely incredulous when I told her the average Indian American is a committed progressive. Had to convince her that the assimilative powers of my country are greater than she assumed, and that the moral sense of the median Indian Americans is, at this point, more American than Indian. Quoting @vjgtweets There is a great divergence in how Indians in America are understood vs. how they actually are on a very basic level. For example, Indians are implicitly seen as an ethnic group, and "Hinduism" is assumed to be a religion like Christianity, Islam, or Judaism, with the implication that it's congrega… America
Why do the professor need to earn $150,000? There are thousands of adjuncts working right now for only $30,000 a year. You can triple their salary and still come under the numbers used here. Quoting @_akpiper I've been trying to mock-up the "minimal college", a no frills humanities institute with just profs and students. No big facilities no dorm no libraries no gyms. Just the place where ideas and learning happen. The brutal truth: the math doesn't work. Here is the artifact to try it out. I can't get… Longer termism is bad. Let me propose an alternative: medium termism. Weigh consequences of your actions on the century scale, but not a generation longer.
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