Comments by "Mark Armage" (@markarmage3776) on "Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400" video.

  1. To understand how most of your assumptions and questions are plainly wrong, you need to understand the reality and propaganda spoonfed to you by the slowly dying empire. 1. Their population is not shrinking, if it continues at this rate, it will shrink, but China is not like the US. Their government has extreme power to incentivize sudden change. It is in their tradition from ancient history to have many children. The recent one child thing is a mistaken policy that can be reversed, it's not easy but it will be reversed. The Chinese people do not think like you, so please do not assume your mentality on a population 3 times your size. 2. Their economy is not collapsing at any point, economy is not measured by GDP, or by dollars, or by anything that you're mistakenly measuring it by. It's measured by labour capacity, the ability to produce goods and services within your society. And at this level, the Chinese economy is one of the strongest ever, because of their independence in almost every significant industrial field, except for agriculture. 3. Their oil cannot be cut off, because they have a partnership with Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia. You fundamentally overestimate US military capability. If you blockade their country using military power, you're declaring war and you will be destroyed first. The China Russia alliance makes them invincible, far stronger than the US, and that partnership solves the China agriculture problems. The US will starve to death before the Russians, and that's not an opinion, that's a fact, calculable by the area of farmable land and agriculture technology. You sir, are a victim of really bad propaganda. You have to wake up and join the sane people. For over 4000 years of history, China has been the center of human civilization and power, what happened in the last 300 years or so is not going to change the trend.
    1
  2.  @colemeeker908  Unfortunately for you, being team America doesn't change reality, sir. So you know.
    1
  3. Mr Musk is mistaken in one very important aspect. There is air superiority and significant advantage on the Russian side, it's just that they haven't utilized it at all. Ukraine is basically under a siege where the moment aid stop coming in, they will crumble. No arms production, no food production, no medicine production. It's like fighting a severely injured animal, you can wait and it will bleed to death. You can compare the casualties on both sides to see who's winning, and the Ukraine ministry of defense is not a valid source.
    1
  4. ​ @romany8125 You can't propagandize your way into changing reality, pal. You have to wake up.
    1
  5.  @romany8125  What, you think you can propagandize reality into changing? That's adorable.
    1
  6.  @romany8125  The phrase is true, though.
    1
  7. This interview shatters my illusion with Mr Musk. He is an impressive engineer and business leaders, but on the matter of international Geopolitics, he have this weird biased towards America as a "force of good". Countries and it's people, as well as it's governments and their policies are not linear. One event in history doesn't means that all other following events shall follow the same trend. Mr Musk does study history but unlike engineering fields, I think he skipped the steps of understanding the fundamentals on this one.
    1