Credit system means you can’t complain about Trump (replace Trump with Obama/Biden/Hillary/Pelosi for the other side).

the irony is there are landlords there too, they’re called the CCP

Nah. Palestinian leaders have been calling for a genocide against Israel for decades without ever losing support from leftists abroad. The Khmer Rouge carried out what historians label as an "autogenocide" against its own people, the same could also be said about Mao and his Great Leap Forward - you nonetheless had lefty college students and activists running around supporting them and carrying a little Mao bible in their bag.

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Well Israel remain the dominant actor in that conflict and its natural to back the underdog

CCP is no underdog

They’re just copying the USA.

Who knew that ones and zeros of code would pose a greater threat to humanity than the literal ability to split atoms and destroy everything on earth.

Yeah, I want to be optimistic but between climate change issues and the complete and total evolution of AI now and what could come over the next 50 years, I have zero idea how the world goes forward and maintains some level of values related to the enlightenment and right to privacy or freedom from government/corporate overreach.

you're double dipping. you cant make the point that authoritarian systems arent advanced because their general population isnt advanced, that is how authoritarian regimes draw strength. its paradoxical to think of an authoritarian regime where the individual is successful and propped up.

authoritarian regimes are more efficient, centralized power, centralized wealth, devalued life for the masses. the logical argument isnt that these regimes are less successful, its that they're historically temporary because human arent cattle willing to be prodded into place. but with the creep of advancements to both the govts prod in security with things like a nationwide closed loop internet and social points, and also a creep of human to cattle like docile beasts, the day draws ever nearer where the axiom of authoritarian regimes being a flash in the pan could no longer be true.

Guilty, college land lords are cut from another cloth though. All of mine were low educated hacks with some real estate rental license which is easy as hell to get. Had to dispute every move out charge they would make up to steal deposits. They aren't the problem though, it's the system man. I've been land lord, it's setup in our favor, especially with homelessness and housing issues rampant.

The facial recognition technology is very solid. I've implemented facial, and body posture detection with neural net machine learning. What is scary is a really shitty low resolution camera is enough to get good data points. Specialized masks really throw it off.

The score is probably a matrix of scores across sub categories. It would better if the social score was for the government so they could use that in a feedback loop to course correct. The US government servants get more feedback from corporate than citizen.

My construction worker buddies would get terrible scores lol. I envy the blue collar social dynamics.



This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Dec 9 2020 07:50am

Authoritarian regimes can make decisions quicker but that isn't efficiency, that just allows them to make the wrong decisions at breakneck speed. A prime example is how hyperinflation in authoritarian regimes is commonplace as they don't have independent central banks. Their economies are less dynamic as a result of being authoritarian rather than it being the condition upon which an authoritarian regime can arise (which is also true).

I agree that authoriarian regimes like China will last in part due to technological advancements that cement their stronghold.