In thirty years we'll have mostly sludgeless models doing lots of useful things for us. First though, we need to get past the "infinitely wealthy snake oil salesmen irreparably harming large swaths of society" phase, and a lot of us need to push very hard to make that phase end sooner.

There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”

But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?

The thing to understand about all these network states is:

(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,

(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass

And

(3) that’s because they want slaves.

You might be right about failure being conducive to internal disagreement, I maintain my main point respectively: Easier to blame allies for their differing strategies than the enemy who won (again and again, thus allegedly showing their strategic superiority (that’s really structural advantage)).

Yet, it’s easier to discuss those among those, who agree on the fundamentals than fight against those who don’t recognise basic equality or similar. Hence, discussion on the right (complex) path forward is the easier fight, bitterly fought. 2/2

You’re absolutely right, I didn’t attempt an explanation in my post. Here goes: It’s complicated. The world, that is. Leftists grasp this, yet also seek morally clear answers that are, therefore, also complex. Two complex answers tend to have disagreements. 1/2

Wir fordern, dass zumindest während Demonstrationen und Versammlungen die Kameras abgeschaltet werden, damit sich Menschen nicht eingeschüchtert fühlen und ihr Recht auf Versammlungsfreiheit wahrnehmen können. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Das bedeutet: Hupen im Stau ist physikalisch gesehen streng genommen nicht völlig sinnlos, aber nach praktischen Maßstäben betrachtet trotzdem nicht zu empfehlen.

I regret to inform everyone that the Blues Brothers movie is as far in the past from us as Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party was from the Blues Brothers.