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I do not propose in this paper to enter into any general inquiry about the best
Editor’s Note: We heard from our old friend, The Chainsaw of Truth. You might remember a
Go where you will over the Lowlands of Scotland or England, or in western Europe over
It is with heavy heart that we report that our good friend and MOTW Poet Laureate,
There are two great classes among writers: those who are echoes and those who are voices.
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.