🇨🇳 🇲🇾ASEAN. Political theology and international order. Bonum Communist. Hangzhou/K.Lumpur @LSEecon @Stanford
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1/ We arrived at this ontological inflation of the machine exactly through ontological deflation of the human.
You've undergone the long arc of the Western reduction of the soul to code so now you think code has a soul. The deflation & inflation are two sides of the same coin.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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In which Kevin Walsley , who does not miss 🎯 on business in China, discusses why Malaysia is in the sweet spot for datacentre build-out between China and the US.
(This is Kiara Hills scenic area in Kuala Lumpur. Be good)
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Did you say you wanted to evade your proprietary AI overlords by buying your own compute from your retail overlord?
Creator says Amazon closed his account after he tried to buy seven Nvidia DGX Sparks tomshardware.com/desktops/mi…
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China has by far the most comprehensive governance framework for AI.
Chatbots are turning western brains into pureed spinach while China bans "AI companions" and requires AI models to remind users they're not talking to a real person, and the western press frame this as China pushing a suspicious agenda.
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She's a gem. I don't know how she kept a straight face through this. I just lost it. 😭
We are literally doomed
American High School English Teacher reads real responses from her student’s assignment after reading The Great Gatsby
We have a serious education issue in America and if we don’t address it, we have a horrible future ahead of us
These kind of responses are to be expected because 12th grade reading results in 2024 in America showed that reading levels right now the lowest they’ve ever been since the assessment began in 1992
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Interesting that while China is also called a K-shaped economy, its firms choose quantity over price, so it’s not ordinary people getting priced-out but priced-in as volumes rise while average spending falls in every holiday season.
One major consequence of the K-shaped economy? The $48 cocktail.
More and more companies are abandoning everyday Americans to chase wealthy customers who can afford to pay exorbitant prices.
Meanwhile, the rest of us get priced out.
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Humans mostly do not think in words.
Animals certainly don't think in words, but they do think.
It's just that words are discrete objects associated with thoughts.
Their discreteness is what makes them easy to store and remember.
This gives the illusion that we think in words, but for most things, we don't.
Many people can't speak but can think.
So do animals.
[You might to have a look at my latest talks and/or papers if you think nothing has happened in the last 5 years:
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If the Epstein Coalition attacks Iran, I will stay active online wherever there is a stable internet connection. If I am targeted, the best person to contact for interviews and for names of others suitable for such activism is @Gh_Tari.
We have no fear.
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now out in print
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ALT THE MOST MORAL GENOCIDE IN THE WORLD Darryl Li Atop a hill in the western outskirts of Jerusalem sits Yad Vashem, the official Holocaust memorial and museum of the state of Israel, a pilgrimage destination for visiting dignitaries and children on school trips alike. Barely a kilometer away on an adjoining hilltop is Kfar Shaul, an Israeli community that includes a mental health hospital well-known for first diagnosing the so-called “Jerusalem syndrome,” whereby awestruck tourists temporarily believe themselves to be Biblical figures. Kfar Shaul was built atop the ruins of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, site of the most infamous massacre of the 1948 Nakba. Some of the stone houses of Deir Yassin are still standing as part of the Kfar Shaul mental health hospital. ...
Spoke at Collège de France last week about The Most Moral Genocide in the World
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At the 2026 Zhongzhou Cup in Zhengzhou, kids solve complicated multi‑digit sums with invisible mental abacuses and lightning‑fast finger movements, outpacing adults with calculators. Their impressive skill stems from China’s time‑honored abacus heritage and consistent training, showcasing outstanding focus while popularizing this intangible cultural treasure. Netizens are utterly amazed by these young math prodigies.
#ZhongzhouCup #AbacusMentalArithmetic #TraditionalChineseWisdom #KidGenius #amazingkids
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Flipping the story in London. With a sign which says "I support genocide. I oppose Palestine Action" she gets no problems from the English police.
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In New Zealand, we have an old saying: A Brazilian said that a Chinese man said, the revolution is like an egg...
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Elizabeth Anscombe on Ludwig Wittgenstein, her old teacher at Cambridge:
“He had an extraordinary understanding of why people thought the things that they did think in philosophical argument, so that when he undermined it, his undermining showed that he was getting at the nerve, the root. It was not a superficial refutation.”
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I have family that lived through that embargo.
When the West tells you Mao killed 40 millions Chinese, the West hopes you never remember that there was an active embargo on China, even on food.
Mainland China was subject to what Cuba endures still up to this day.
ALT US embargo on China
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RT @Vermeullarmine: Just to be clear, this is a pristine example of Schmitt’s “commissarial dictatorship” :
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