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Exactly. POSIWID, the "purpose of a system is what it does".

The administration proudly call it that, formal documents call it that, and war they wage. It is a Department of War.

A remarkable exception of non-doublespeak nowadays.


That is also why I think it "won" over Slack. Discord solved audio comms for gamers, period. It got so good, that SMB and startups started to migrate for stuff like easy pair-programming, open meetings etc.

Discord IMO won because of a killer trio: 1) good comms 2) full history 3) faster UI over bloated Slack.


That is the crux of the problem we're facing as a society: many, many leaders have this idea that they are better served by an AI that is 70% (?), 80% (?) correct when helping them make decisions about their business, than trusting humans - consultants, employees, pundits - that they don't even trust their judgments, bias, own goals, much less paying them.

For those people, an AI better (much better?) than a coin toss is the goal, if it means not relying on people.

Personally, I already deal weekly with people that veemently antagonizes every line of thinking if it isn't what ChatGPT told them before a meeting.


The root issue is epistemological.

If one puts their faith in answers that come out of a black box, then one must justify the black box's omniscience, specifically by prioritizing it above human intellect and deprioritizing attempts to reason through its logic.

You saw it with older people blindly following sat navs because they'd forgotten how to navigate. And those were much less believable sounding devices!

It's not going to stop until/if the first execs are thrown in jail because the 'I just trusted AI' defense fails.


I'd like to point out that some online chess tournaments, mostly using rapid and bullet times, have a "berserk" option pre-start, where the player taking it halves their allotted time bank, for double the winning points.

It's not a bluff, since information is still 100% open to both players, but it changes dynamic a lot.


IMHO a huge aspect of Carlsen mental strength isn't just the focused, at-the-game part, but we just see him enjoying Chess in many angles: not only he plays all styles, he streams relaxed, he plays Lichess and Chess.com; Chess is not only his job and passion, but it seems that he's also able to relax while engaging with it.

The only top-athlete that I see do the same is Max Verstappen, who is know to play competitive racing-sims online even hours before a real F1 race.


Magnus has streamed playing chess while drunk, in a party/loud atmosphere, and had some very fun and exciting games. He's a blast.

he's played other GMs while very drunk and playing bullshit openings.

He still wipes the floor with them. Guy is just a beast even compared with normal grandmasters.


Thank you, your comment made me aware of this event I didn't know. [1] I have found at least one concrete evidence you assertion is correct [2]: The Dusseldorf Agreement of March 16, 1939.

> The British historian Martin Gilbert believes that "many non-Jews resented the round-up", his opinion being supported by German witness Dr. Arthur Flehinger who recalls seeing "people crying while watching from behind their curtains". Rolf Dessauer recalls how a neighbor came forward and restored a portrait of Paul Ehrlich that had been "slashed to ribbons" by the Sturmabteilung. "He wanted it to be known that not all Germans supported Kristallnacht."

This passage is particulary eerie IMHO, since I've been reading "I don't condone this" of current world events over and over.

> In 1938, just after Kristallnacht, the psychologist Michael Müller-Claudius interviewed 41 randomly selected Nazi Party members on their attitudes towards racial persecution. Of the interviewed party members, 63% expressed extreme indignation against it, 5% expressed approval, and the remaining 32% were noncommittal.

Also particurlarly eerie to me. Yet the regime went on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorfer_Abkommen_(19...


You could reach out to SPV for help, there's a similar database there: https://sanpedrovalley.org.br/startups

We (I'm from there) used to have a map like yours, but that was years ago. But the database should be easy to ask for access or a copy, even if slightly dated.

Brazil has many "valleys" such as SPV you can use to enrich your data.


Second this. It's only been a few months since I started deploying Temporal at work, and there's no way that I would try implementing all this in-house.


This is not what OP said, at all. OP doesn't have to explain anything, or be "successful" explaining to you what the world is watching unfold in horror.

It is factually and correctly stated that any non-white, non-100%-perfectly-English-speaking person is a suspect in ICE views, detainable with no recourse. They said it themselves, the administration said that themselves, and there's ample evidence online of them enjoying doing it.

It is why people like me, who have legal status and business to conduct in USA are not gonna risk detention and deportation while ICE/DHS is operating. I'm Italian, my name is of Spanish origin, and I lived most of my life in Brazil so my accent is Brazilian. I have zero odds of convincing and ICE agent my passport isn't fake.

So, I'm out of going to Vegas, or doing talks, or anything else I have enjoyed doing in the USA in the past.


> It is factually and correctly stated

Being factually correct isn't always winning. Envoking correct emotions often is.


Exactly. As long as Guiana is happy doing multinational business with US-allied companies, they're active participants in USA trade hegemony and that is sufficient.

Venezuela is not. They're heavily sanctioned by the USA and have to do their petrol business elsewhere - also not using US dollars as exchange currency. POTUS made clear this situation will not continue as is.


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