Interestingly, the tariff announcement did not apply to Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and Belarus, supposedly because they don’t run a trade surplus with the US. Except that Russia does.
Browsing: Opinions
Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times came away from a China trip convinced that cooperation to regulate and contain artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the single most urgent, and most neglected, issue in US-China relations. While “fully aware of how absurd it can sound calling on the two of them to trust each other to collaborate,” collaboration is essential “to create a global architecture of trust and governance over these emerging superintelligent computers.” Otherwise, they and the robots they create will surpass us, with unpredictable consequences in trade, warfare, labor, and much else.
This growing interest in nuclear weapons is especially noticeable in Europe, where Trump’s berating of NATO and Putin’s threats of nuclear attack are particularly unsettling. Although Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, dismissed any notion of Germany developing its own nuclear weapons, he has stated that it must explore “whether nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security from the UK and France, could also apply to us.” Furthermore, several German think tank experts have floated the idea of building the infrastructure that, if necessary, could produce German nuclear weapons.
In 1790 Edmund Burke, founder of conservatism, said, “Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.” Enter Trump, and the Christian Nationalists, who are pulling down government institutions. Built by American democracy with deliberation and foresight, those institutions have served the common good for over 200 years.
But the women of Liberia, faced with years of a brutal war and a dictatorial rule, rose up in nonviolent noncooperation and stopped the war even as they gained democracy.
America’s voters remain mindful of the tragic fate of the famous Titanic, once labeled as unsinkable. Captain Smith was the typical headstrong seaman unwilling to listen to chief Mates and Maritime advisors. He ignored three warnings of dangerous icebergs in his path. Due to his stubbornness, the Titanic rests at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. Currently, America’s Democracy appears metaphorically haunted by the Ghost of the Titanic.
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The Spook Who Sat By The Door was a book; The Nightmare Who Got Inside is our President.
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I started wandering through my childhood and adolescence, trying to figure out how I wound up creating the guy now sitting in front of his computer screen, and I quickly started digging through some of the old journal notebooks I have saved, dating back to tenth grade. In my English class that year, one of the books we were assigned to read was The Diary of Anne Frank. To say it had an impact on me is putting it mildly.