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Enlightenment Or Not
November 27, 2019

Embrace Failure Completely

If it didn't kill you, it made you stronger. There are lots of variants of the above expression. In general, it means there are reasons one survives a failure. Learn them, all of them, and practice them openly. Future success depends upon these self-inflicted failures. Failure isn't the problem, not…
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5G
October 9, 2019

5G – Who’s On First?

Washington Post journalist Josh Rogin described a bureaucratic catch-22 Rube Goldbergesque approach to 5G by the current administration. The article addresses future 5G networks; however, the sense of Rogin’s argument can be extrapolated to IP generally, and China’s global marketplace advances in particular. By Josh Rogin Columnist April 18 at…
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Artificial Intelligence AIChina
July 11, 2019

CHINA’S AI ECOSYSTEM RE-MAPS GLOBAL ALLIANCES

The making of partnerships in AI is not easily predictable. The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence As the U.S. and China vie for global influence, AI will be central to the balance of power By Abishur Prakash on July 11, 2019 Something stood out of the ordinary during a speech by China’s president, Xi…
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How To Think
July 11, 2019

Facts Do Not Persuade

The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.Illustration by Gérard DuBois In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one…
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"Trickle-Down" Insolvency
June 22, 2019

Disparities of Wealth Cause Unstable Social Inequalities

Author Ben Steverman provides statistical support for the rich getting richer, the poor poorer, and consequences therefrom. The US Tax Code has been fairer in the past. Since the foundational Internal Revenue Code of 1954, some tax law changes were meant to promote business and investment, some to provide subsidies…
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Enlightenment Or Not
June 5, 2019

Faith Is Abdication Of Mind

Nevertheless, we rely on faith, at least somewhat, to enjoy civilization. Science and philosophy have limitations. The essay by John Horgan, below, acknowledges some questions are unanswerable. In Defense of Disbelief: An Anti-Creed We should doubt all theories and theologies that claim to solve the problem of who we really…
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China
April 26, 2019

China’s Ascending Military

US military superiority is premised upon hardware and alliances, its own alliances and others it can rely upon. In Asia, there are no NATO nor Warsaw Pact equivalents. The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), the ASEAN Regional Forum, and the ASEAN Defense Ministers-Plus Meeting are discussion forums that lack meaningful…
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Artificial Intelligence AIClimate ChangeEnlightenment Or Not
April 15, 2019

Ordinary And Necessary Threats To Homo Sapiens

The big three threats today are climate change, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Weapons, especially nuclear weapons, pose a far lesser threat. Why? Humans learned long ago that weapons are fearful and destructive, and such knowledge long since has become deep-rooted into the fabric of our neurology. Humans have not…
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Socialism
March 12, 2019

Socialism – Understood And Misunderstood

Most people understand and condemn the overarching form of government that exists in 2019 in Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela called socialist government. A vague belief that the communism of the demised Soviet Union based on socialism and Marxism continues today through these governments. China has emerged as something different,…
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