Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Dwarkesh Patel"
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@skydragon23101979
One the Hitler War was over in Europe, Russia would have turned on the spigot to Mao through Manchuria. Exhausted Britain would still have wanted Hong Kong back, so there's no knowing what to do with that branch of the hypothetical.
The long short of it is, the democracies had the A-Bomb -- eventually, somewhere -- and Japan didn't. The Japanese A-Bomb program, set up in the Toei Theater Building in the Ginza, was going nowhere. If America had not come into the war, the A-Bomb project was also running in North Bay, Ontario, and would simply have been ramped up there instead of at Los Alamos. Remember the Manhattan Project was European brains, with some American additions but not a dominant fraction, running on American money.
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The Mongol Spot is a pink spot on the outsides of the buttocks; it fades around a person's mid-thirties -- the normal age of death, way back when. It is said, I don't know with how much authority, if any, to be a genetic inheritance from some Mongol horseman. Maybe even more than one.
In France it is said to be found as far as Langue d'Oïl but not Langue d'Oc , but the all the people have been mixing it up since the railways, military conscriptions, and the occasional revolution recently..
The Japanese are of course One People, genetically unpolluted, from Hokkaido to Okinawa, so it is ridiculous to imagine that the Mongol Spot was found everywhere up to that wall at the end of the Odakyu Line, an old Empress's property line, so naturally nothing at all to do with breeding, uh, genetics.
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@bobbymak6964
"Bingo!" Bobby. Spot on. (Her good word, you earned it.)
Her students will end up commanding "boats," as US Naval officers call them. One of her students, fifteen years after graduation, can say "Look, I'm just a 35 year-old kid driving a boat for the Navy, but I've got more shit here than everything dropped in WWII." (Yes, I have now told you order-of-magnitude the hitting power of most of the old Spruance class destroyers. They're out of service now, but there were 31 of them, and yes, that's what at least a bit more than half of them carried. I have no idea what the Burkes and Zumwalts carry now, but I think a sound guess would be, uh, more.)
His students? He's a slick San Francisco broadcaster and I-net hacker. He is very good at teaching journalists how smart he is (and he is very bright). But no, he's a decade away from being one of her students and that might put him fifteen years short of commanding an out-of-date destroyer.
So yes, you gotit, Bobby.
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@manuelkim7064
"Making an analogy between Modern China and Meiji and Imperialist Japan is also cuckoo territory." Now there's a sweep!!! 🙂
By "modern China" do you have in mind 1644 to 2024? Or 1949 to Deng in '89? Or what period do you have in mind with that rather large term "modern China"?
I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I am forced to say that your sentence, "Making an analogy between Modern China and Meiji and Imperialist Japan is also cuckoo territory." is sorta self-referential. That's the cuckoo territory, don't you think, now that you've had a chance to think about it?
There is one of your points, too, that I think you'll have to agree is very precisely, clinically, incorrect I'm not talking broad nonsense like whose stuff is cuckoo. I mean a specific wrong word on your part: You say " but overall she presents a very US-centric view of the world." You blew it at the word "*overall*."
Go back and listen to her again. You'll find that she uses the word "we" from time to time, and when she does she is expressing an opinion about Americans' interests, Americans' actions, and so forth.
But "Overall"? I think there is only one thing that characterises what she says overall . Overall she believes that it is vital to see the world from both maritime and continental points of view. Overall she things the maritime view is more important, more productive, more historically interesting,..
She presents a "very US-centric" view very very rarely. And she identifies those points with precision and honesty. That's when she uses the word "we," and when she uses the word "we," that's what she's doing. It's only a small part of what she is saying here. Go back and check. Then get back to us, OK, Manuel?
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Dwarkesh, If you have a moment, could you go back and look at yourself at 4:38 making a boyish funny, "Putin, right?"
No, she knocks you down: Kim.
Play the video a couple or five times, just fifteen seconds forward. It's smart kid Dwarkesh meets a grown-up, something that has obviously not happened to young Dwarkesh very often in his life so far, yet.
Study that fifteen seconds, Dwarkesh. There's a bit of important content there: the very different mental states and problems of Kim and Putin are data important to the wider world.
But for you, the important thing to be gained is that you just met a grown up. And she taught you something.
Or at least she gave you the opportunity to learn something. About somebody more important to you than Kim or Putin. About Dwarkesh Patel.
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@lkyuvsad
As the great Jane Jacobs used to point out, a unified currency is not necessarily a Good Thing.
In an economy as large as that of the United States, enforcing the use of a single currency has huge overheads.
The unproductive states, coincidentally mostly the "red" or Republican ones, are denied the possibility of catching up through currency adjustment. The result is that they are permanent beggars, getting by on the charity of the functioning states -- and consequently resentful and hence retaliatory against them.
The sour anger of the Republican Party is rooted in exactly this psychology. It is the whimpering revenge of losers angry at the more effective people, economies, and institutions who are keeping them alive.
If they had their own currencies, the losers could devalue, compete, and then work their way back to equality, rather than depending upon charity.
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