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As Vannevar Bush observed, writing in 1949, the failure of the Nazis to develop a sufficiently effective proximity fuse, which allowed bombs to detonate just prior to hitting their targets, was a consequence of their arrogance, not their incompetence. The Germans, he wrote,32 were incredulous that “the verdammter Amerikaner” had succeeded “where
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And I think that one of the reasons that with more means, we seem to find less meaning, is that means give you permission to pay less attention .
Packy • Means and Meaning
classic aristocratic morality that imputes virtue to victimhood, levels down human excellence, and strives to protect the innocent above all.
Was Nietzsche a Techno-Optimist?
In the old Mickey Mouse cartoons from the early and middle decades of the twentieth century, by far the most prominent source of hilarity is the capacity of material stuff to generate frustration, or rather demonic violence. Fold-down beds, ironing boards, waves at the beach, trailers (especially when Goofy is at the wheel of the towing vehicle, on... See more
Packy • Means and Meaning
When there is no need for political-ideological work and war mobilization, the supreme commander of war only needs to consider the situation itself as if it were a game of chess and completely ignore the thoughts and emotions of the pawns/knights/rooks on the chessboard. War becomes a purely technological game.... See more
Furthermore, political-ideological
eth.limo • My Techno-Optimism
For Lee Kuan Yew,26 the aspirational ideal was to become, as Confucius urged more than two thousand years ago, a junzi, which has been variously translated as an “exemplary person,” or “gentleman.” This was someone who is27 “loyal to his father and mother,” “faithful to his wife,” “brings up his children well,” and is a “loyal citizen of his
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
The means by which the Chinese government patrolled the boundaries of speech, however, were far more subversive in Link’s view, and in many ways more closely approximate the contemporary model of attempts to constrain speech in the United States. Link wrote that the Chinese government “rejected these more mechanical methods” of censorship used by
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