Interested in polemics, philosophy 🇻🇦 open to criticism
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telecomputerman retweeted
This well-hyped book is certainly worth a read and it is very short. Bottom line: the collapse of civil association favours the authoritarian right and the left can only recover by restoring institutional association. But author knows his suggestions for doing that are forlorn.
“In truth, the great conflict over our megapolitical future is only just beginning. On the dimension of technology, the conflict has two poles: AI and crypto. Artificial Intelligence holds out the prospect of finally solving what economists call the “calculation problem”: AI could theoretically make it possible to centrally control an entire economy…[S]trong cryptography, at the other pole, holds out the prospect of a decentralized and individualized world. If AI is communist, crypto is libertarian.”
Peter Thiel
January 6, 2020
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"The foolish and idiotic obsession with finding a "Nazi" behind everyone who thinks of reality as the "will to power" or behind anyone who thinks and experiences his thought and reference to being more radically."
Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1942-1948, translated by Adam Knowles.
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telecomputerman retweeted
Today idols arise and demand our worship: success at any cost, money, an obsession with appearance, popularity, or the unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes, in order to win the approval of others, we may go so far as to lie, betray, or humiliate someone on social media. Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina
telecomputerman retweeted
Why does a former Deputy PM feel so compelled to mount a “defence” of a country halfway across the world? Can he not look a little closer to home? Meanwhile those out in places like Moree and Gunnedah are being crushed by the cost of living. Who’s defending them?
"Meine Rache an Schweden, das ist Malmö, das ist ein Ort, an dem die Menschen nicht mehr leben können, das ist ein großes Problem und sie verdienen es wirklich."
Dieses Interview von Tilo Jung mit Dan Schueftan, einem israelischen Akademiker, Experten für nationale Sicherheit und Berater mehrerer israelischer Premierminister, darunter Yitzhak Rabin und Ariel Sharon, ist mir völlig entgangen. Es geht um die Entwicklung der Lebensqualität in Malmö vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels. An Zynismus kaum zu überbieten!
