@McFaul ๐ "fears democracy"? How about fears long range drones hitting oil refineries. Democracy is not scary. Technological superiority in drone warfare is.
@Polymarket Germans seem to be very susceptible to propaganda. They take seriously any messages that come from authority figures - unfortunately even economically illiterate journos qualify as being authoritative enough.
@bboczeng The incentives drive the outcomes. If leaders are optimizing for their quarterly bonuses and short term share price appreciation - squeezing suppliers and buying back stocks are the best moves on the chess board.
@JOBhakdi It might just be that AI is the last chance the save humanity from it's natural decline into retardation. One more decade of this type of decline and it may be too late to prevent a complete collapse.
@firstadopter Krugman is leftist ideologue pretending to be an economist - that explains the "wanting to bang head against the wall". This is a common reaction when speaking to any marxist on anything related to economy and capitalism.
@alojoh I wonder how many trillions were lost and wasted due to marxist retardation - the most salient example of it being the European net zero movement.
@patrickc Imagine EU needing to generate power for AC and AI data centers. The ask is just too steep - EU has not hit rock bottom yet to make correct energy production decisions.
@johncoogan@citrini It is also quite often assumed that min-maxing in the classical sense helps to break the game and thus results in maxing the resources via some exploit.
And climate hysteria continues to haunt the European psyche. Without confession, without forgiveness, the secular circus of degrowth keeps clowning the old world. Pantomiming hell with apocalypse theatrics.
Need to watch the gradual change of public sentiment on the Iran war. If Trump is able to reverse "the US was defeated" narrative, it will be another indication that the simulation is populated mostly with NPCs. Or that Trump is a generational talent when it comes to the persuasion game.