One frustrating thing with this list is that communists *always* have to get rid of labour power. Should be obvious. The Nazis did the same thing for the same reason. You cannot be socialist and have the workers revolting. Instead, you take over the unions.

And this issue about corporations being protected... well, yes. More like co-opted. Like Nazi officials in every business mediating labour relations and directing some business decisions. So just like China. Corporations protected. Yes. But are they really corporations or defacto parts of the government?

This is unsolvable in many ways, because tribal knowledge (religious/political) is invariably dripping with nonsense. As humans we cannot see this in ourselves. It's to do with knowing who is and isn't on your side, so we are primed to censor and attack each other based on what amounts to cr*p that we don't know is cr*p.

Humans are a bad example here because of the "learning/maturation" confound. A baby goat is born, and walking withing minutes. They're almost immediately good at not bumping into stuff -- it seems problems mainly due to muscle coordination. Or how about a chicken, that has perfect stereo vision depth perception without any learning at all. This was tested by putting hoods on the chickens that let them see through one eye. (You have to alternate the exposed eye each day, so that the eyes still develop.) The instant you remove the hood: perfect depth perception. 100% maturation. No learning.

The irrationality myth comes from confusing people's goals with people's reasons. Reason serves the goals. Behind the vast majority of "irrational behaviour" is some game-theoretically optimal reasoning to a desired goal.

Further, reason is fundamentally different to pattern matching. If humans were mere pattern matchers, we'd be incapable of testing ideas, and we'd need millions or billions of years to examples before we could write or talk. Humans also do "one shot learning".

We can create reasoning computer systems, and "one shot learning", and pattern matching (LLMs). The problem is how do you merge these together. That is a giant mystery that the human brain does on 20 watts of power.

If this were true then it'd take a child about a million years to learn how to talk. Humans have pattern matching, sure, but we also have reasoning, and "one shot learning", and some secret sauce to coordinate all of these.

The US wasn't at war with Russia. And even if it were, the government doesn't run Microsoft, Google, etc.

I am disappointed that there wasn't a more full throated initial response. Ukraine should have been given whatever it needed on day 0. The intelligence services new that the war was about the start.

In other words: horah for a future of warfare and economic barriers!!!

North Korea may be an informational dark hole. I think the point is that widespread support for the war in Russia demonstrates the effectiveness of next level propaganda. There's a reason why Ukrainians talk of "orcs".

We spent 30 years trying to treat China like an ally. A CCP defector said that they never left a cult like obsession with a cold war against the West. It takes two to tango.

Broadcom's stock price is suggestive that it's infor the long haul.

I get that change is annoying; however, it also seems implausible that Broadcom would just 1000% increase bills, and hope VMWare pays for itself. There's much more to this story, including, but not limited to, the strategic positioning of Broadcom on the VMWare asset.

SpaceX has always sucked on the government teat.

If the court upholds the law, the interpretation will be narrow.

Idk if the 1st amendment will save them. The case will be interesting.

India, USSR, Vietnam, Korea, Nepal, Bhutan, South China Sea.

There's a reason why all of Chinas neighbours hate them.