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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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... The United States should craft a strategy aimed at altering the calculus of Beijing’s decision-makers. ...
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... It feels like we are living through one of those kind of boring interregnum periods that will get short shrift in history textbooks. Like 1870-1900 in America or 100-150 in the Roman Empire. ...
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... With this insight, we turn to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and find that, while still far from demonstrating general intelligence, many state-of-the-art deep learning methods have begun to incorporate key aspects of each of the three functional theories. ...
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... stopped saying "transitory", it still seems to believe that much of the inflation we're currently experiencing will fade away without the need to impose a lot of economic pain 2/ One odd thing about this debate is that the actual policy demands of the inflation hawks have been pretty moderate: an end ...
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... But that cheap credit hasn’t actually created any real resources, so you end up with increased spending on both capital and consumer goods. As a result, inflation starts to inch up, and central banks are forced to raise interest rates to cool things off. ...
... The period through the end of 2007 arguably fits the austrian model. There was arguably over investment in residential home construction. In 2006 and 2007 the home building industry was contracting while other industries were still growing. But in mid 2008, the situation changed. ...
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... Most of the analysis from Fukuyama's end of history would fall apart in a scenario in which state competition no longer exists. ...
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... History started when human species began to dominate the ecologic environment and started to compete for survival as social groups, it will end when the survival competition between social groups ends. ...
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... The foundational idea of the End of History is inherited from Hegel - man's desire for recognition overriding other desires (mainly preservation) is something that transcends humans, something that proves man's freedom. ...
... This desire for recognition is probably a product of group competition and the recognition is about one's worth to the community in the context of fierce group competition between communities. The narrative of intragroup fighting for recognition creating the slave and master didn't exist. ...
... Without a better understanding of this desire for recognition through the lens of group competition, ideas built on top of it are flaky as well. ...
... For example, we don't know which desire is more prominent: the desire for equal recognition for each member or the desire for the recognition of the community as a whole. In modernity, the further is represented by liberal democracy while the latter by nationalism. ...
... In *End of History,* Fukuyama took one paragraph to dismiss nationalism as an irrational one in contrast with the desire for recognition at the individual level. This distinction, as demonstrated above, is not well-founded. ...
... The argument for liberal democratic being more rational is that it's the only way to reconcile competing desires for individual recognition. This is based on the assumption that individual recognition dominates the projected national recognition. ...
... It's more evident that the majority of a social group is prone to manipulation, be it religion, ideologies, etc while liberal democracy is just one of them to support elected orligarchy. And that is supported by group competition theories. ...
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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). ...
... Will it morph into something different when social group competition completely disappears? I.e. when there is only one social group: the human race. Does that mean will can have a more radical democracy? ...
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... Hegel declared this as the end of the history and went on to claim that liberal societies were free from contradiction and would therefore bring historical dialectic to a close. ...
... My critique: can we claim absolute self-consciousness when we still don't know how evolution history formed our biological nature? Is that something attainable only after theories like EDSC is in man's consciousness? ...
... As for "liberal societies free from contradiction", is the universal equality and the need for struggling in social group competition a contradiction? ...
... A liberal society can't just focus on its own principles of equal rights, it still has to serve another survival function: to compete with other social groups, liberal or not. Isn't that a contradiction? ...
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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. ...
... It remains to be seen how the advance in information technology affects that balance but signs show that it tips the scale more towards the side of the state. ...
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... The key of preventing war is the people, if no soldiers are willing to fight, there will be no war, and for that, we must cure us vs them. ...
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... He projects the recognition of his state onto the recognition of himself. And it probably has a much better biological root than Christianity. ...
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