Comments by "Akira Nakamoto (中本 明)" (@AkiraNakamoto) on "Thomas Sowell" channel.

  1.  @mikez4760  ALL the countries you mentioned are small countries with population size comparable to the microstate Singapore. Your centralized socialist solutions may work well in these small social systems, but won't work in giant nations like China/India/USA. The scientific reason is NP-complete problems in computational science. I wrote a long explanation about it, but youtube deleted it. So you have to do some homework by yourself.
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  2. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. --- Ronald Reagan I think it's a big mistake that Dr. Sowell rejected Reagan's offer of Secretary of Department of Education. At least some fairplay rules could be introduced to mitigate the woke 5hits in the educational system, if Dr. Sowell took the offer.
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  3. Wishful thinking. Act on a whim. Rousseauian emotion driven by menstruating men's estrogen.
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  4. As Tom Sowell says, the self-anointed / the left is always allergic to the fact. No exception this time.
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  5. 5:44 Adolf Hitler was also a largely self-taught character. So was Stalin. So was Mao. They didn't have the decency to learn anything decent from any decent subjects such as science and rational thinking.
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  6. First International is essentially BLM with the concept of race replaced with the concept of social class.
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  7. 10:26 A crowd of godless self-appointed gods. :face-blue-smiling:
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  8. As a scientist with some knowledge of probabilistic systems, I have a scientific theory about non-merit based programs like charity and affirmative action. In regard to Affirmative Action, logically there are only 2 types of reward system: merit based and non-merit based. There is no third option. Affirmative Action is NOT merit-based, so it must be non-merit based, an evil policy if it is adopted as a "main street policy". Why? The sum of large amount of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) distributions is Gaussian Normal Distribution, aka. the bell curve. It has a sigma parameter to quantify the shape of the curve. Most instances, 99.7%, fall into the [-3*sigma,+3*sigma] interval. Let's call this "main street", and call the other part "3 sigma alley". Any non-merit based policy can ONLY apply to the 3 sigma alley, not the main street. Otherwise disaster is the only possible result. For example, I support charity programs, but only if they are applied to the [-infinity,-3*sigma] poor people in the 3 sigma alley. If you apply the charity programs to the main street. It becomes communism and famine follows. This remark also implies that these non-merit based programs (charity and AA etc.) must be run by private sector, not the government which by default would apply to the main street. Affirmative Action is just like a charity program. I have no beef with AA if it is limited in the 3 sigma alley, i.e., with about 0.3% quotas reserved for AA beneficiaries. But the stupid rats have applied AA to the main street for decades. Here we go. The result is disastrous. In a nutshell, I support these non-merit based programs (charity & AA) if they are limited to the 3 sigma alley and they are not run by the government. Otherwise, my answer is NO.
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  9. It can be evaluated by comparison, that is, form a group of AA institutions and a group of non-AA institutions with comparable performance at the beginning, then we compare their performance 20 or 30 years later. My prediction: Meritocracy-based policies always win, at least won't lose. And AA is NOT meritocracy.
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  10.  @ScandinavianHeretic  I am from a science background. AA is not a big issue in STEM fields. But for schools of liberal arts, there are very obvious degeneration and decay, for example, Hollywood (graduates from dept of performing arts) and corporate media (graduates from dept of public communication). We no longer have performing artists and journalists, only radical Marxists and woke activists.
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  11. Eugene Sledge would agree with Sowell 100%. Eugene fought in Peleliu and Okinawa. What he wrote in his memoir is just one word: living hell.
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  12. Here is my concise equation: Barack Hussein Obama = Black Rousseau.
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  13.  @ScandinavianHeretic  Since 1961 signed by JFK. Democrats initiated and developed it.
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  14. 3:22 It was a rule-or-ruin tactic that would appear again and again in later communist infiltrations of non-communist organizations. -- Thomas Sowell on Karl Marx's tactic in handling the First International
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  15. An interesting remark I've figured out after I read Max Weber's book "The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism" is that................Confucianism is perhaps the closest ideology of Weber's Protestant Ethic (or indeed Calvinist Ethic according to Weber himself) on this very earth in regard to working ethic. As long as working ethic is the only concern, Confucianism and Calvinist Ethic are almost identical. The ideological distance between them is much closer to the distance between Calvinism and Catholic or whatever ideology. Of course, I am not talking about theological aspects, only working ethics. Nowadays Taiwan and South Korea are still very Confucian in secular life. Japan is not a typical Confucian country. But Japan was largely affected by Chinese Tang and Song dynasties. The "traditional" Japanese clothing is indeed a close variant of Chinese Tang clothing. Mainland China and North Korea are scr3w3d by Stalin's Russians and FDR-Truman's regime. If they hadn't begged Stalin invade Manchuria, China and North Korea would have preserved the traditional Confucian way.
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  16.  @ScandinavianHeretic  It's not okay. I am against any non-meritocracy based government policy. We are living in a probabilistic/stochastic physical world (as proven by 2022 Nobel Physics laureates). Enforcing uniform distributions is never a natural way. The most common natural one is the Gaussian normal distribution (aka. Bell Curve). I am not saying we simply let the poorest (3*sigma) die. I am saying that Charity is necessary, but it should be handled by non-profitable non-government organizations (e.g. church), not by government. All charity institution run by government are incredibly corrupted, see the Red Cross of China for an example.
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  17. Wrong and wrong. Obiden is NOT a straw man, and they are NOT down.
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  18.  @unforeseencircumstances  I am saying that his decision was perhaps a mistake. We, the "Constrained Vision" believers, retreated without any meaningful effort to defend our beliefs, therefore the "Unconstrained Vision" quasi-Marxists have taken over the world.
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  19. You can also say that Hitler was ineloquent, because there was hardly any authentic logic in his words. But Hitler is good at demagoguing. That's a confirmed conclusion. Obama is repeating the same trick.
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  20. A typical Rousseauian aiming for disaster. Refer to Reign of Terror and communist regimes for examples. Lawlessness is the common feature of all Rousseauians. BTW, illegal means lawless.
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  21. It's called colonization, rather than immigration. In colonization, people bring their home country's life style to their new residence.
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  22. You can also say that Hitler was ineloquent, because there was hardly any authentic logic in his words. But Hitler is good at demagoguing. That's a confirmed conclusion. Obama is repeating the same trick.
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  23. Details available in Fredrich Hayek, "The Road to Serfdom". Chapter 11, "End of Truth".
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  24. This video was made in early 2010s.
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  25. Nobody is perfect. You need to compare Reagan with other HUMAN POTUS, not with the God.
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  26. 【The following comment was a reply to EzraFaulk's comment. But it was always deleted by uutube, so I have to post it independently】 This(EzraFaulk's comment) is a revisionist's history that is lopsided and egocentric/sadistic (or anti-egocentric/masochistic if from an American apologist). To be fair and neutral, there is NO excuse to attack Pearl Habor because of an embargo, a non-military policy adopted by American to contain the Showa Jingoists. Otherwise, this kind of logic can be used to justify ANY aggression, such as Nazi Germany's expansion, or Mongol's mass expansion and mass murders. Everything can be justified because there is no perfect ideal on this very earth. This is called Moral Relativism. And this Ezra dude is a typical moral relativist. BTW, I am not Japanese. The audience shouldn't have wrong idea about my id.
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  27.  @jumpupdown2556  I can confirm that the original Chinese text is 不见棺材不落泪。
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  28. Actually "Unconstrained Vision" per Sowell's term.
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  29. It's a common phenomenon in a type of society called "mouse utopia".
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  30. A lineage from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Mao and Polpot. As long as their fanatic supporters are alive, the world is always upside down.
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  31. Diversity only applies to cuisine and arts. There is no such thing as "diversity" in politics. You just cannot implement rule-of-law and rule-of-outlaw at same time, or democracy and dictatorship at same time. It's logically impossible.
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  32. Yes. The left makes living by imagination, not reality. Utopia is never a right thing.
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  33.  @ScandinavianHeretic  Yes. Poverty and similar underperformance issues should NOT be enacted into governmental imperatives, which should be based on meritocracy only. In a fair social game, Gaussian normal distribution is the natural result. Successful people do not owe underperforming people anything. Welfare states say otherwise. They are wrong because governments are always less efficient and more corrupted than private sectors in the long run. Government may be the ONLY choice when something is at its initiation phase, but eventually will lose to private competitors. I can use NASA versus SpaceX as an example. At the very beginning of space exploration, we didn't have choice but to rely on US government and Soviet government to start it up. But eventually the governments become less efficient, waste more money given them enough time. As to your last question, it's a tough one. My answer is related to Adam Smith's "Invisible hand". But it's an original research and I haven't finished it yet. Basically the best solution in a stochastic dynamical system is an exponentially stable solution according to Lyapunovian stability. There is a way to achieve the goal according to my original research unpublished yet.
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  34.  @aguyyouneverknew  According to Dennis Prager, these Nordic countries are capitalism in production (i.e., wealth creation), and socialism in wealth distribution. Every country enforcing socialism in production/wealth creation has failed unconditionally. Only a few small ethno-nations (i.e., low complexity in terms of population size and heterogeneity) enforcing capitalism in production and socialism in distribution have survived.
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  35. If based on open and transparent competition, then yes. But today's H1B visa granting procedures are mostly under the table.
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  36.  @josephgakunga5296  No. On the contrary, if you are a palestinian or an israelite, you can't really understand what's going on because of conflict of interests. I am a neutral 3rd party with thorough reading of the related history.
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  37.  @ezrafaulk3076  No, u r not. It's called Apologist's excuse, which can be used to justify ANY aggression.
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  38. Multiculturalism only applies to cuisine and art. There is no such thing as multiculturalism in politics. In other words, it is impossible to implement rule-of-law and rule-of-outlaw at same time, to implement democracy and despotism at same time. It's against logic.
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  39.  @andythomas4998  Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing sxxxxxe, but transmogrifying normal behaviors to abnormal ones.
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  40.  @sterlingferguson1704  So, you believe Marx's "truth"?
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  41.  @sterlingferguson1704  Culture Marxism is what's going on in uurr mind. That's why.
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  42.  @sterlingferguson1704  You don't show anything but trolling in your comment.
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  43. You have confused Showa Japanese with modern Japanese (born after Douglas MacArthur's Constitution).
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  44. Virtue signaling is the nuclear weapon of the left, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to commies then to western wokes.
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  45. Like all other socialists, Karl Marx is good at spending other people's money. Sowell is too nice to use some bad names to call these people. I think Ayn Rand is more caustic and sharp on calling them: they are "parasites".
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  46.  @jaya8729  You know what they say about people who ASSume. I have no political party and u r an irrational libertard.
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  47. The reason: loss of Protestant Ethic held firmly by the nation founding puritans. By the term 'Protestant Ethic' I mean the exactly same term named by Max Weber.
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  48.  @pedrohenrique-et3fs  You guys need to differentiate two types of tradition: the type of Pareto improvement (non-blocking of other people including the real thinkers) & the type of control-based improvement (i.e., blocking other people to enforce the will of people in power). The tradition of USA (& Scotland & Netherland) is essentially a Calvinistic practice of social Pareto improvement, i.e., closest to the former one by far. The tradition of Nordic countries is a Lutheran practice of quasi-Pareto improvement, i.e., closer to the former one. The tradition of all other countries is the latter one, i.e., the source of all kinds of social disasters. This explains quite well the Reign of Terror in France, the fascist's era of Italy, Germany and Spain, and the communist's era of Russia and Asia. They all belong to the tradition of control freaks.
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  49. I would use "Nakamoto government", which is an unmanned government implemented by Satoshi Nakamoto's BlockChain technology if we regard "government" just as a form of "social consensus". Indeed the "social contract" theory in classical liberalism is based on this equation "government = social consensus". Therefore, if social consensus says that the executives and businessmen should be highly paid, then so be it. But I don't think this thing will happen with non-trivial probability.
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  50. ​ @Mayadanava  Unlike your India, USA doesn't implement socialism in the PRODUCTION / WEALTH CREATION fields. India's persistence in planned economy is even worse than China's. Welfare states refer to those regimes implementing socialism in WEALTH DISTRIBUTION fields. This approach only works in those small ethno-states with stable rule-of-law. India and China are corrupted socialism states, NOT welfare states. Please don't flatter yourself.
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