Comments by "Ken Otwell" (@KenOtwell) on "GZERO Media" channel.

  1. The switch on Harris by the party was not hypocrisy - she truly changed and blew away her reputation (so far.) The fact that they love her now is simply because she's earned it. It's ok to change your mind when the facts change.
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  2. Stealing defense secrets is not a game. Many people are spending decades in jail for that. Whether he intends to sell them or not, they're just laying around for anyone to take.
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  3.  @stephenlight647  He wasn't trying to convince science-deniers. But he was very clear about his biggest goal is to get China, Russia, and India to skip oil technology and go straight to renewables rather than invest in old tech. No harm there.
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  4.  @lomotil3370  lol - so you question Harris's accomplishments but don't care about Trump's criminality? What does that say about YOU?
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  5. Thank you for these interviews with foreign players. Its just such a treat to hear well-articulated and well-thought-out positions so far out of our own little box.
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  6. Ok, but what IS the republican policy agenda? Is it just catching more busses? (e.g., a national ban on abortions, a clawback of student loan forgiveness? What?)
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  7. Has appeasement EVER worked???
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  8. Wow. This interview with Kerry is nothing like the laughable way it's been portrayed on right-wing media.
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  9. Very well said. How do we get your voice in front of more people?
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  10. Excellent summary. Thanks!
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  11.  @john1425  Who has actually said they will prosecute their political opponents and even call out the military on them? Not Harris.
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  12. Thanks! Great content. More metathinking, please.
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  13. I just love these updates, Ian. Thanks so much for caring enough to do this.
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  14. Would have been nice to discuss the actual dangers and not just monger fear.
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  15. Unfortunately I completely agree with Dalio about the change in American culture (I'm 65) and what it portends for our future. I'm afraid our 300 years of ascendancy is over and our decline has already started. Move over Rome and the British Empire, we're on our way to join the great states of yesteryear. Not that we failed so much as just outlived our time. I'm not willing to state the obvious about the ultimate virtues of democracy in a multi-cultural society over benevolent dictatorship, but draw your own conclusions.
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  16. How long before buyers' remorse sets in? Months? Years? Decades??? Will it happen in time to correct it?
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  17. Love me some Mayor Pete! He's still the most intellectually, ethically, and motivationally capable person on the scene to be president in the near future. I can't wait until he runs again with his new national accomplishments. My only advice for him would be to stop being so humble and not give all the credit to Biden.
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  18. I've been working in AI since the 80's, and I think the FUD has been way overplayed. I agree with Ian, the real danger is what people do with AI, not what AI "decides" to do on its own, as if it had a will of its own, which it doesn't.
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  19. Love me some Mayor Pete. If he's not president some day, there is nothing redeemable about American politics.
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  20. If it was just anyone but Trump, then Biden would still be in the running.
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  21. Nothing cold about it.
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  22. I never understood how raising unemployment was preferable to lowering the wage gap from the top or lowering corporate profits. Such an inhumane - and unhuman, policy. Don't raise unemployment to quash demand, raise taxes progressively so the pain goes where it can be tolerated or even ignored.
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  23. The warrant cited 3 laws, none of which required the documents to be classified - just government documents related to US defense. Repeat - the crimes being cited in the warrant did NOT depend on the documents being classified.
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  24. Totally agree with Jenkins - we are being much too forgiving with Saudi Arabia just to please big oil.
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  25. But are the new fabs being built in the US going to be next-generation or last-generation? Will Intel, NVidia, and AMD be able to use their chips in their top CPUs and GPUs or will TSMC still be the technology leader? Part of the reason TSMC stole all our 'chips' [so to speak] is simply because they are years ahead of anyone else in their ability to make the smallest, most energy efficient, and fastest circuits.
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  26. Mayor Pete! Perfect age.
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  27.  @Hexanitrobenzene  I get your point on Biden - but I don't think the "sudden" support for Harris is hypocrisy.
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  28. Like your new haircut. ;)
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  29.  @stephenlight647  "He emits more carbon than an entire farming village in India" how much would that be, and over what time period? And how would you prefer he travel with his security entourage? Why is he "moral?" Has he ever made that claim or is anyone who is trying to help the planet somehow a fraud by your definitions? He specifically talked about focusing on lowering pollution in China and India despite your claims otherwise. Plus, people with hard science degrees are NOT getting the attention they deserve. Kerry is helping with that.
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  30.  @professorakiba434  Uh, he actually said in the video that he already voted for Harris.
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  31. How can the US power only be military vs China's economic power, when we are the ones funding their growth through trade imbalance?
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  32.  @labanyu  China is not lending the US money - they are investing in government treasuries. It's their choice for the safest place to put cash with the best returns. It's a mutually-dependent relationship. Much of the goods we buy from China are actually made by American companies operating factories in China.
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  33.  @ak203  What's scary? The consequences of having stupid electorates on both sides.
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  34.  @valetudo1569  We would have had a tax raise on the richest if one DINO hadn't gotten bought out by wall street at the last minute. At least we got the 15% minimum corporate tax passed for billion-dollar companies. That was pre-negotiated and agreed to, by Biden, with the G7 so that corporations couldn't just relocate to avoid that tax. This is how the latest bill pays for itself and also reduces the deficit a bit.
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  35. Ian - what country has ever been this polarized and then came back together? Ever?
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  36.  @lomotil3370 I think we never recovered our political unity after the civil war - just papered over it for a bit and now its back.
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  37. This is the type and quality of content that I subscribed for - thank you.
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  38. If Ukraine didn't order the car bombing... who did?
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  39.  @TheAdrianFlo  and that would just make it worse and give us even more immigrants.
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  40. What was the point of this video?
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  41.  @hdaviator9181  If they just make chips suitable for IOT (refrigerator controls, dishwasher controls, automobiles, etc.) then that will do nothing to help our national security interests despite being the most widely used chips. If we don't provide actual state-of-the art fabrication plants, then our defense industry, our computer game industry, and our AI industry will still be held hostage to TSMC.
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  42. I was totally with Summers until the "buy cheap, not American." This attitude increases wealth inequality as the blue collar class is robbed of their chance to actually benefit from raising wages and gets us in a cycle of stagflation, and robs America of a chance to focus on increasing productivity to get prices down rather than trying to compete with low wages internationally.
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  43.  @jeffkutlesa7315  We have different priorities and different interpretations of politics. Cheers.
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  44. I love the quick truth, no varnish. Thanks!
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  45. "News in 60 seconds" for a 3 minute video? But the rest must be accurate, right?
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  46. Come on - Brussel French Fries are great! (They invented them.)
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  47. Devil's advocate: Why should we trust news just because it's shared? Why shouldn't we see various perspectives and sort it out ourselves?
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  48. "Rights" are legal constructs about human behavior. They have nothing to do with nature.
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  49.  @josiaaah_m  As long as the "it's just a process" argument doesn't extend to scientific facts held by 99.9% of scientists in the same field.
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  50. Wow - what a bunch of twisted half-truths and deceptions! You should have called her out on the fake-facts about Biden and the border.
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  51. Apparently, the increased focus on election security actually paid off - only one or two GOP outliers are now claiming their loss was from fraud instead of the dozen or more I expected.
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  52. Why blame the people who hear it without knowing its false or where it came from? That's Victim-Shaming and wrong.
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  53.  @toyotaprius79  Education is demand driven; people choose their own specialties and classes. Modern culture shapes those choices by what values people learn growing up.
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  54.  @alanfriesen9837  That's not quite true. They're trying to grow consumer spending but they're still hooked on trade for their growth.
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  55.  @labanyu  so - China is investing in US assets? hmm. I guess they think we have the best assets which will make them the most money long term. Ok... who am I to argue with them? The US is the best place to make money - China says so.
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  56.  @labanyu  I get your point. I also want corporate profits to stay in America... but does who own a company really influence where those profits are spent? I mean, do American companies spend their profits in America... or in Chinese factories anyway? On the plus side - If China is so heavily invested in American assets, they aren't likely to start a war or do anything to destabalize our country. Just a thought.
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  57.  @labanyu  so? What exactly is your point? What should we be doing that we aren't doing, or vice versa?
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  58. On using AI to make toxins and poisons... do we not have a poison for every purpose already? What new capabilities are still awaiting research in poisons and toxins?
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  59. Elon does NOT think he's brilliant in everything. Those are his sycophants' claims. His only problem is running-off-at-the-mouth disease. Its not his fault people dote on every tweet.
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  60. Clarity is refreshing - but the content of that clarity is terrifying in today's politics.
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  61.  @shane_rm1025  Spot on - rich people don't consume as much per dollar they make as a "regular" person does. BUT they absolutely consume more than a "regular" person in total by an order of magnitude, there are just fewer rich people so you don't seem to notice. BUT - what they DO do with their "left over" money is park it in real estate, art, and other passive investments that keep it out of circulation. (It's mostly new money that goes into starting new businesses... not old money.) It's how the wealth gap keeps spiraling out of control. They SHOULD spend it or at least increase wages in the companies they own, but their wealth hoarding hurts everyone and, long term, will leave America with de facto lords and other wealth-based royalty exactly like Britain and France before their revolutions.
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  62. The problem is execution and deference to politicians like Trump. He should never have been allowed to take them out of a skiff when he was president.
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  63. I doubt very seriously that Trump will get anywhere near the following he did when he was president.
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  64. He is a bit "naive" on race because he's not a typical pandering politician. He's trying to solve real problems with real solutions and he's (OMG) putting his city ahead of his campaign. People just don't know how to recognize character and integrity - its so rare in politicians.
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  65. What makes you think AI can't emulate empathy? Try a chat-bot. They've been doing it for decades.
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  66. If you think that rigging elections with a combination of gerrymandering, restricting voter access, installing political hacks to oversee elections, and giving state legislatures power to choose electors instead of voters is "reinventing democracy"... I'd say you're related to George Orwell.
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  67. Wasn't this interview already published a few weeks ago?
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  68. We can't even manage what AI is doing TODAY in social media to control what and how we think about our fellow humans that are the slightest bit different from us. Let's fix TODAY's problem before trying to tackle ones from the future.
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  69. Time to bring back Pete Buttigieg. He would have mopped the floor with Trump in the first 10 minutes.
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  70. What? NYC is the biggest immigrant draw in the country. Texas is just a way point.
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  71. Redundant websites are easy [Facebook] - it's a choice, not a technical restriction.
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  72. At least Kamala will try to pay for it.
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  73.  @aleaiactaest8354  Harris will spend money on the poor and middle class, and "try" to tax the rich and big business if congress goes democratic. Trump will give tax breaks to the rich and corporations and could care less about paying for it. You pick your poison, I'll pick mine. Just fyi, the tax rebates we give to big oil for drilling new wells would cover twice the green investment we are making now.
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  74. Trump removed all doubt - he will invade Greenland/Panama/Canada because he thinks that's what strong rulers do. ALL he cares about is power, might makes right, as he announced to the world that Ukraine's moral position is meaningless simply because they are too week to stand up to Putin. This was the last straw for any hope of rationality on Trump's part. It's ALL about power, period.
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  75. Obviously the GOP has no underlying principals - it's just whatever keeps them in power. The veil is lifted, the cover is blown, the cat's out of the bag.
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  76. If political rulers control the spread of misinformation - where do they get THEIR facts?
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  77. And therein lies the dilimma. When free speech is a smoke-screen for lies and propaganda, what are we to do? Whichever tribe your in, you want the "real" truth to win, right? But when no one can debate what's true or not because "free speech" trumps any thought of accountability for lying, we all lose.
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  78. Two and a half decades shy of Trump.. that's young.
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  79. Ha. The problem with the democratic party is that it has too many contradictory ideas, not that it doesn't have any. As Will Rogers said, "I'm not a member of any organized political party; I'm a democrat."
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  80. The US pushing for more made-at-home tech, having lower inflation that most of the other developed nations and going DOWN finally, and near record-breaking employment - will attract world investments to the US and increase this disparity, benefitting the US at the world's expense.
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  81. The rolling blackouts are caused by delays in implementing green energy, not BY the green energy. CA is a unique case where mudslides and forest fires have already been increased dramatically by global warming and will only get worse. Blaming EVs is like blaming a vaccine for making you feel bad for a day and saying you'd prefer to just get the disease and die a slow and painful death.
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  82.  @jeffkutlesa7315  nope - all my posts are still here. @slartibartfest was reacting to your first long post in this thread where you said the green movement was just "an ill-thought out political agenda." I wouldn't personally say you're an "empty can" - I would just say you are biased and looking for reasons not to change from our current tragic climate trajectory because it might inconvenience you somehow. Your statements about climate corrections being done on the backs of the poor.. just projections. The real damage from oil and gas drilling and refining is already done in the backyards of the poorest, resulting in poisons and pollution in their water and air. A view of windmills is a lot more pleasant (to me, obviously) than a field of oil rigs or refineries. And of course there's not enough green capacity yet- what do you think we're fighting big oil for? How can anyone justify the $20 billion per year we subsidize big oil with compared to the few hundred million we spend on green?
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  83.  @jeffkutlesa7315  My only reply is that any readers need to do their own research and not rely on social media comments for your information. Cheers.
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  84. Why did the Afghan soldiers not fight for their people?
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  85. American Disunity encouraged and inflamed by his support of right-wing disinformation.
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  86.  @RR-iq8ze  She was the only real option. Once Biden throw in the towel, there was literally no one else they could run after the primary was already done and Biden/Harris got all the delegates. BUT that doesn't explain the huge crowds, huge number of new voter registrations, and massive amount of excitement among the democrats. I didn't even know much about her except for her excellent senate grilling of witnesses but my mind has been blown by how effective she's been against Trump and in rallying her support. I haven't seen a single false step - she does things on her time-table and so far she's nailed it. She owned Trump in the debate, her speech to the economists was stellar, and her speech after the border visit could be the final nail in Trump's ridiculous political boondoggle.
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  87. I've always hated the idea of making social media liable for everything anyone posts on it, but I'm starting to hate all the alternatives more.
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  88. It's not "protect at all costs." If it were, we would never send soldiers overseas in the first place. The issue is, at what cost is it worth it? How many hundreds of soldiers should be sacrificed to evacuate a handful of Americans, most of whom chose to stay until the last minute for reasons of local family or other priorities, when there is a good chance of extracting them later? You can argue either way, but Biden has a lot more intel than I do so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here.
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  89. Because he's a serial liar fascist wanna-be and would put all his loyal cronies in every position, including 50,000 civil servants that he would move into political nepotism instead. America will not survive as we know it if Trump gets another term.
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  90. It will feel like a disaster BECAUSE IT WILL BE A DISASTER if election-denying republicans win seats of power over elections, period. I'm sorry you don't like feeling that way Ian, but reality is what it is.
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  91. Given how long its taking Russia to move their invasion forward and all the cemeteries they've filled with their conscripts - I don't doubt that Europe could make short work of what's left of the Russian Army. The only worry is nukes - will Putin use them?
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  92. Bout has been out of the business for over 15 years. You really think he's just going to jump back in the business now that every police agency in the free world has his fingerprints and dna?
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  93. Less of a burden on American soldiers, true, yet we still were paying for salaries and weapons for the entire Afghan force. It was time to leave, period.
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  94. Would they also be liable for blocking free speech due to false-positives from their automated filters?
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  95. It's about political power. Trump wants the border to stay open so he can campaign on it - so his troops are now blocking the bipartisan immigration overhaul that would mostly solve the problem.
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  96. Ian did say that the political divide in the US is only getting worse, but he didn't say what the consequences would be. My take is that It will be hard to provide global security if the GOP achieves, with approval from their base, permanent power by rigging elections with a combination of gerrymandering, restricting voter access, and installing political hacks to oversee elections. Without any liberal voices left in politics, the US military will become even more of a tool used by American oligarchs to control global supply lines and markets like big oil has done in the middle east.
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  97. Just a brilliant and thoughtful answer. I also heard the things he left out.... Clinton's BJ lies, the "no new taxes" pledge, but mostly that these actual failures of leadership were all on the GOP watch. Only a con man would equate Clinton's fling with causing the deaths of 10s of thousands of people or losing their homes, yet that both-sides-ism is all we get from "center" media because telling the truth might cost them viewers on one side or the other.
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  98. Yes - he's biased for America and against it being torn apart by partisan lies.
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  99.  @GZEROMedia  Unfortunately, people don't watch different sources - they watch the ones they already agree with. It's very hard to watch "the other side" because all they seem to do is demonize and bash "your" side, and who wants to hear that? All the news on the fringes is about how evil and corrupt "the other side" is.
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  100.  @jabeltre1  Uh, he actually said in the video that he already voted for Harris.
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  101.  @lomotil3370  You must not be paying attention. Do your own research, you won't believe me if I just tell you.
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  102. Well, ok then. So which tech company IS winning the battle for future tech primacy? And is tech winner necessarily the most profitable one?
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