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  1. it´s 2025 and some people still play stupid, huh
  2. never was

    it was always BS

    now everybody can see

    thats the only difference

  3. I’d love an estimate from you (or anyone) about the marginal effect on the profession’s “care” (which is what? and how’s it measured?) from having the prize include Nobel’s name vs. not including it.

    Since you stand by your statement so strongly, you should have it already, correct?

  4. > the CCP explicitly considers themselves Marxism-Leninism with and their internal beliefs and government structure is structurally follows that.

    > they consider themselves Communist. They do not consider us Communist.

    And you know all this because of your deep study, in the original language of course, of the CPC, their internal factions, and the collected writings in their leading policy journals, I assume, yes?

    Or dare I even ask did you get this from some 250 word limit editorial in the "wall street journal"?

  5. Touché :)
  6. This is a persistent mythology of western economic history to "cleanwash" the past and "explain" the present inequality (or what was the present until recently)

    Think about the components of all those innovations from the past and if they would have been possible (to scale) without violent and forcible extraction of resources from around the globe, incl forced labor.

    Think about when GDP was constructed and how, and from which point stuff got counted into it (ie from which point in the production chain it added to a country´s gdp). If you take raw materials X and Y from somewhere, by force and for cheap, then make sth like a out of it and only count that topline, now you have a big gdp, congrats.

    Eg even the "US" was not even "settled" (forcible land expansion) until the late 19th or early 20th century. So you have a steady influx of cheap/free land to support a growing population that keeps adding to the "gdp". Lo and behold, soon after this dynamic stopped, financial bubble and bust ensues.

    The main lesson for me is that progress and growth are completely separate things/concepts. You can absolutely progress without "growing" (bloating) your gdp, if you change some things. You can absolutely regress while "growing" (bloating) your gdp. Look at "US" today.

    Chicken are coming home to roost. This is why first instinct of Trump and his cohorts is now to expand again "US" borders. Go back to extraction to "grow", since they are institutionally and mentally incapable of progress without extraction. More importantly, without "growth" the system as it is will collapse. It behaves like a cancer that has close to killed its host. It´s over, and anyone who can see knows it on some level.

  7. Have you tried SolveIt (method, tool) from Jeremy Howard yet?

    I was in the first batch last year where they introduced it and going to do the second one too.

    It´s a very different kind of beast to what is currently being discussed.

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