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... See moreAlthough the West’s combination of markets plus science/technology does generate learning (companies die, startups replace them etc), our political institutions show little-to-no sign of learning in how they deal with things like state competition and war. Patterns of failure recur reliably hence books like Thucydides and Sun Tzu remain cutting edg
Our example, though, requires explanations, the kind the Founders gave to the world. And this is where we are failing: the dominant schools in American universities can tell the Chinese students only that they should avoid Eurocentrism, that rationalism has failed, that they should study non-Western cultures, and that bourgeois liberalism is the mo... See more
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Two insightful articles on how AI is making general knowledge worthless, and private, proprietary data infinitely more valuable:
1. @benthompson: "It is suddenly clear to me how much future economic value is wrapped up in information not being public...
Secrecy is its own form of friction, t... See more
BuccoCapital Blokex.comI keenly hope that the wise administrators in Singapore will continue their commitment to the humanities and social sciences.