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... A Chinese student reflects on why her country is authoritarian—and how democracy has a chance. <em>Look for AP’s symposium on the China challenge, in partnership with the Hoover Institution, in early spring.</em> ...
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... There's a widespread view in inflation hawk circles that the BLS came under political pressure (in the 1990s and maybe before) to modify the CPI to reduced the measured inflation rate and hence reduce how much the government would have to pay in Social Security benefits. ...
... The CPI, the one used for adjusting Social Security benefits, tends to come in higher than the PCE index. Right now, for example, PCE inflation is 5.7 percent while CPI inflation is 7 percent. ...
... Personally I think the most likely story is that the BLS (slightly) changed its methodology in the 1990s because it thought the new methodology would more accurately capture the true inflation rate. ...
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... One of the worst aspects of current politics is the bipartisan consensus that America kind of sucks. On the left you have the relentless negativity of woke politics. On the right you have the relentless negativity of Trumpism. ...
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... I think most Americans underestimate how much more dysfunctional our constitutional/political system could become. I think people mostly still think about the changes of the last 30 years in terms of the tone of political arguments getting nastier: annoying but ultimately not that important. ...
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... This part of the population is usually where the manipulation happens (i.e. politics) ...
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... Here it is. https://t.co/x4dR7KFUd5 https://t.co/Ca274C7UWi tldr: Full Stack Economics is fully independent and self-financed. We have no outside donors or investors. The vast majority of our (still modest) revenue comes from subscribers. ...
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... Like 1870-1900 in America or 100-150 in the Roman Empire. As an example, 9/11 seemed like (and was) a really big deal for those of us who lived through it but today the long-term consequences, either for the us or the Middle East, aren’t very obvious. ...
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... In an oligarchy republic, one politician can exploit popular support to overcome other competitors, and in extremes become a despotist. The so-called democracy is basically populist politics normalized in an oligarchy. ...
... The legitimacy problem - i.e. how the members of the society accept the political institution, is only a problem within the elites. For the non-elite population, such questions can be easily settled through political manipulation, like Cesar and Hitler. ...
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... There are some insights from this [article](https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/dreaming-of-democracy-in-china/) by an anonymous writer - particularly the categorization of China as an egoist society. Although this is probably not due to the "Class struggle" as suggested by the article. ...
... This theory is inspired by Fukuyama's theory that patrimonial political order is the default that humans fall back to. Personally, I think the key still lies in the power balance between society and state. ...
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... As long as social groups still compete against each other, the political structure of those groups has to serve the function of competition. The so-called liberalism democracy as of now is still more like an oligarchy republic (as envisioned by the founding father). ...
... Does that mean will can have a more radical democracy? E.g. instead of voting for policies, each person simply submit their prioritization of her desires and needs. Then the government (human or AI) will simply produce a policy that maximize utility for the entire human population. ...
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... If the self-understanding of our genetically programmed tendency to consume sugar and fat can help us manage those desires (with the help of technologies), then the self-understanding of our genetically programmed tendency for solidarity with "us" and adversary against "them" can help us manage that ...
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... This mental language is thought to be distinct from natural languages like English or Spanish, and it is believed to be the medium through which we think and process information. ...
... Instead, it is thought to be a universal language that is used by all humans to represent and process complex ideas. Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ ...
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... Because this self-supervised learning process mimics the brain's learning mechanism: make predictions and learn from prediction errors. ...
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