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While Thanksgiving in its present form is a distinctively American holiday, it did not spring Minerva-like
It seemed to me that, having to speak tonight to soldiers, that I ought to speak
A Sherlock Holmes adventure starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.
There seems to be a culminating point not only in all human arts, but in the
Old joke: The Lone Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by the Merciless Indian Savages. Lone Ranger: “What do we do now?” Tonto: “What you mean ‘we’, paleface.”
This may be relevant to the speakers’ breezy assurances that we the U.S. are ahead in A.I. when the “we” in their mental schema includes, e.g., Google, or all those Chinese citizens at work in American companies and universities that the speakers believe are a good thing.
This is why you don’t want tech guys making national policies. The idea that placing US technological strength in the hands of foreign nationals just because they haven’t return to their homeland is stupid.
If anything, all this has done is convinced me we need more nationalism in the world, and more working as allies and trade partners, than what’s happening now.
Why would China allow a foreign platform be their dominant platform? Idiots.