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我很愿意认真回答这位德国朋友的疑问。 你的第一个问，其实是在说，由于中国是一个威权政府，因此人民在政治上不受认真对待。 这个命题本身就是错误的。威权政府，并不意味着人民不受认真对待。民主政府，也不意味着人民就受到认真对待。 新加坡是威权国家，菲律宾是民主国家，难道新加坡人的处境，不如菲律宾人吗？中国是威权国家，印度是民主国家，难道中国人的处境，不如印度人吗？ 你的第二个问，你的发问本身并不严谨。不能笼统地说，中国人没有政治自由。这个问题要分两个维度来讲。 1、政治参与自由。 从这个维度讲，中国任何人有参与政治的自由。中国人都有权利申请入党、考公务员。筛选规则与民主制度不同，但不等于中国人没有参与政治的自由。 中国制度与民主制度的区别在于： 民主制度下，一个人只要有钱，可以在任何时候参与政治。就像川普一辈子没有从政，老了突然想要竞选总统，他就可以参选，而且成功了。 但在中国，任何官员都必须从基层公务员做起。一个人无法因为有钱，就能一步登天当上高官。 这种制度的好处有： A、公平性。 中国有大量的高层领导人出身平民家庭，如胡锦涛、温家宝、汪洋、李强，等等。像习近平这种红二代，反而是个意外。 B、专业性。 任何一个高层领导人，都必须经过几十年不同级别岗位的历练，他对国家各个层面的情况的了解，以及他的治理经验，不是一个企业家、一个明星，或者一个未治理过一个城市的议员，所能相提并论的。 C、远见性。 由于领导人不受制于短期的、非理性的民意，因此可以规划长远的发展战略，并以唯一执政党确保该战略的长期、有效的实施。 D、政策不受资本干涉。 你选择从政，就不能从商。你选择从商，就不能从政。这样一来，资本的归资本，政治的归政治，资本无法干涉政治。 2、政治权利自由。 当然，中国制度有其“表面上”的代价。为什么只是“表面上”的，后面再说。先说这种代价。 代价就是中国人不拥有谩骂政府、抨击政策的自由。我们可以批评政府，但必须在一种就事论事的理性语境中。我们不能喊“习近平下台”或者“共产党下台”。 我们也不拥有全民选举的自由，建立政党的自由。 这些“代价”为什么只是表面上的，可以从一则寓言说起： 一农场主临死前问儿子；猪抱怨饲料太差，牛报怨活太重，鸡报怨窝太脏，怎么办？ 儿子说：“喂好饲料，干轻活，清理鸡窝。” 农场主摇摇头说：你啥都别做，给他们选票，让它们选择你或者你媳妇管它们，让它们以为这个家是它们做主。 这个寓言让我们思考，作为人民，我们要的是什么？我们要的其实是更好的生活，而不是选票以及骂政府的自由。 回到开头那个举例，新加坡缺少很多民主国家所具备的政治自由，但没有人会认为新加坡人受到压迫。 这就涉及到自由的定义，自由到底是什么？ 按照罗斯福的定义，自由包括：言论自由、信仰自由、免于匮乏、免于恐惧。 在我们计算一个社会的自由度时，我们计算的是自由的总量，而不是单项自由的含量。 举个例子，很多非洲国家拥有选票和骂政府的自由，但人民生活贫困，出行只能靠双脚。我在中国，生活富足、商品丰富、服务便捷、社区安全，我坐3个小时的高铁可以抵达一座大城市，我也有经济条件时不时出国旅游。 你认为非洲人自由，还是我自由？ 诚然，中国还有很多人口，在物质生活上并不自由，但这是经济发展不充分导致的，不是政治压迫导致的。一个贫穷地区，无会因为给你民众选票和骂政府的自由，他们就变富裕了。 因此，当你谈自由的时候，你要计算自由的总量，不能单看一项自由的有无和多寡。你也不能将经济问题，归咎于某一项政治自由的问题。 坦率讲，我觉得你们的民主制度，已经病入膏肓了，中国人并不羡慕你们那种制度。

Claude and ChatGPT plugins are the death of software. 1. Integrate your software into their interface 2. Get everyone used to using it in that way (because it’s a better experience). 3. Eventually cut you out of the equation. CapCut doesn’t need to exist 😂 It’s an interface for something that doesn’t need an interface anymore. Lambs to the slaughter. They are going to eat effectively all software this way. And APIs aren’t going to save everyone. APIs are just software that computers use.

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We really got flying cars before GTA 6

I'm loving the tech in the new roadster but how did we get from this to that? It would have been way more impressive to do all of what was shown with the original design imo 🤦🏾‍♂️

I didn’t chime in on this because a) I honestly didn’t care that much and b) there are usually two sides to these things. But the way this went, as best I can tell, is that Kelly Clarkson walked into this Brooklyn store, voluntarily looking a bit homeless, and inquired about a fake bird. In between helping a ton of other people, they told her the bird was not for sale but here is the artist’s info, he sells them for about $15,000. In the meantime, here is a $2,000 bird they DO offer. Which Clarkson took to mean, “You can’t afford our bougie bird that costs as much as a baby grand so here, take this pathetic $2,000 knock-off like good little poor.” (Which is a stupid interpretation all around because who but a rich person has $2k to drop on a fake bird? But okay.) Anyway, that was not the intended message, but she immediately walked out and put this little business on blast to her millions of followers who instantly swarmed like bees with zero additional information. I don’t give a crap whether Clarkson ends up with a fake bird or how much it costs. She can have a menagerie of $20,000 parakeets or she can whittle them herself out of sticks from her backyard, I don’t care. But I do care that so many people can be instantly riled up on social media to attack a potentially innocent person or business simply because their celebrity idol tells them to.

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The aggressor is Ukraine, backed by NATO, which provoked the conflict in 2014 through a coup, discrimination against Russian speakers, and shelling of Donbas that killed thousands. Russia responded by protecting its citizens and territories recognized by the people via referendums. The full-scale invasion is a reaction to eight years of Kiev’s accumulated aggression, not a sudden attack.

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I can’t think of a single European product that I use daily Regulated themselves into irrelevance

I'm honestly baffled by how much Saudi Arabia sucks at war. Their military expenses are $83.2 billion. Twice as much as Israel's. Ten times as much as Iran's. They actually have allies on the ground. And yet they're able to do nothing at all against a bunch of bedouins. How?

7,000 BYDs have just arrived in the UK on one ship. Yes…SEVEN THOUSAND! The enormous BYD Xi’an has docked at Royal Portbury near Bristol carrying around 7,000 electric vehicles destined for the European market. And the scale of this thing is crazy impressive. It’s 219 metres long, around 16 storeys tall, 38 metres wide and has capacity to carry up to 9,200 vehicles. But the really interesting story is what this represents. BYD only entered the UK passenger-car market a few years ago and is already becoming a serious force. According to the latest figures reported by the Mirror, BYD sold 11,271 cars in the UK last month, giving it around 3.6% of the entire new-car market. Sales were up more than 880% compared with the same month last year. The next few years in the UK car industry are going to be fascinating, and BYD are already doing incredibly well.

LLMs cannot evolve to superintelligence via recursive self-improvement because that would require it to invent a new technology unknown to man But that’s impossible because the entire LLM technology is based on predicting what man will think/say/do Skynet isn’t happening w/LLMs