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7The world is getting smaller, faster and stranger by the week. I mean how many countries, how many languages, how many religions can be dated with some degree of accuracy? How many treaties, how many UN resolutions can we find that refer to countries, not nations? How many UN bodies can we name?
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13In some ways, the world is getting ever more diverse. Take, for example, East Asia. China alone is flexing its economic muscle in this region and Japan is slowly but surely encroaching on the leading role. Japan is also the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, spewing out enough carbon dioxide to double the urban radius of Botany Bay and cause the collapse of earth four times over. With so many players pushing the boundaries of what is legal in their respective backyard, the globe is quickly becoming a much greater ©
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19Eduardo and the Real Story
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23On the morning of February 23, the United States and Mexico signed into law a sweeping Mexican-U.S. economic and political agreement, which will create a low-tax, high-tech, high-tech, Mexico-U.S.-Mexico high-tech future.
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25This is the real story. The details are sketchy, but it seems that some very harsh restrictions were placed on certain aspects of the deal, such as:
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45This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will learn about the many ways that the rise of AI is likely to cause social unrest and instability, from the obvious like fake news to more subtle forms like widespread identity fraud and misinformation. We will learn about the ways in which policies and laws that attempt to stop these kinds of things will have to adapt and adapt we will, but first we will discuss the weather.
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51Sovereignty Club is full of questions. How do you find the NSA? How do you find out about the World Club? How do you find out about systematic corruption? How do you find out about grey areas in law and order questions and procedure questions and more?
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54This month at Sovereignty Club we ask the great question everyone wants to know: how do you find out about something as mysterious and elusive as the sovereignty of ferny bridge, south park.
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63There are many different ways to kill a mammal, but what is certain is that they do not always die from gunfire. That is what happened when a group of South Australian government scientists discovered that the adorable little critters they had been hauling back to roosts in sauna for research actually liked our microwave weapons. For whatever reason, the
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65This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. I know you all know about Donald Trump and the US election, but I wanted to share this interesting article on The Diplomat about the peculiar way in which China deals with its citizens who express concerns about the rise of AI. The article features five Chinese citizens who expressed concerns over the rise of artificial intelligence and the eventual automation of society, but the central concern is shared by most of the Chinese citizens in the article. What this article shows is that China has a long and storied relationship with stupidity, and that China-isms are not just popular in China but also found throughout Chinese thought.
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67At the Sovereignty Club today we have the Einstein Battalion! They do things a little different from the main group:
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70[Einstein] …. we're not interested in philosophy; we're interested in science. That's all we do. We study physics, we think about physics, and whenever the mood strikes us, we do research into the foundations of reality itself.
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78This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will learn about the rise and fall of nationalism in the age of information; how artificial intelligence will destroy jobs; and why the best way to deal with natural stupidity is with more natural stupidity. This is a great topic and we should all be interested in the answers. I invite you all to join us to discuss it and to eat lunch. If you can, come early as we will be discussing natural stupidity in Singapore this Wednesday, July 9 at 6pm.
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84Singapore has become a global financial and legal hub in the 20th century. It was also a haven for pirates and other criminals. Here are 5 of them.
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107What it will take for the AI to understand that it does not matter how smart you are, or how intelligent you think you are, it will always find a way, and succeed at something stupid, because stupid is something that happens all the time, and all the time people do stupid things, and AI will learn from its mistakes, and adapt, and succeed, because it is not a technology, and because I am a paranoid paranoid schizophrenic,
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116In the year 2114, the human race has achieved unprecedented levels of development and prosperity. In fact, the human species has gone from being the planet's poorest primates around 12 million years ago to one of the richest and most productive species on the planet today. And, as you may have guessed already, human beings have become smarter over the past century and a half.
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118But, you see, over that same period, the raw material production rates for all the different components of the human body increased at an exponential rate. This is because the way that living things grow as animals does is by growing exponentially more rapidly. For example, take off wing birds have large flapping wings with which they can easily flap them rapidly enough for the bird to take off again. And, the bird doesn't even have to expend energy in the air to take off again. Just look at the total number of world bird extinctions over the past 65 million years.
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122This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also talk about the recent announcement by the World Economic Forum (WEF) that artificial intelligence is here to stay and could overtake humans as the world's dominant economic species by the late 2030s. We will also talk about the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report that states that artificial intelligence is already here to stay and could create up to as many as as one trillion new job-holders per century. We will also talk about the recent announcement by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to add artificial intelligence to its Sustainable Growth Path.
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128Raffaele Colombo (@RaffaeleWen) The Singularity is Near: A 1-12 Science of Dichronies, Gravity, and Artificial Intelligence
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157*This week we will be discussing a paper by David Autor and a co-worker on the effect of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Please join us at the Sovereignty Lounge beginning at 6 pm on Wednesday, June 27, to discuss this interesting research paper.*
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163In the recent past, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States and Great Britain embarked on a policy of world trade liberalization. In this process, significant changes took place in the international economic system. The main players were the United States and Great Britain, the major industrial powers at the time. But there were also countries that entered the game later, and that are not so important anymore: China, Russia, and Central and Eastern Europe. These countries played an important role in the early days of globalization, but as the name implies, globalization is the running of thegers–or the kingdoms back–in Europe. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the major powers in Europe and the American colonies were engaged in a long-running diplomatic dispute over the interpretation of the Treaty of Ghent in 1618, which granted certain territories in western Europe to the English and granted others to the subsequent claimants. In the end of the dispute, Ghent became the scene of a series of important international events, including the Napoleonic Wars, the American and British wars of independence, and the rise of nationalism in Europe. During the Napoleonic wars, Ghent was the scene of several bloody Napoleonic skirmishes, including the Battle of the Somme in 1915, which resulted in the deaths of more than a million Muslim civilians. In the American revolution, Ghent was the scene of several important events, including the battle of Lexington and Concord, which resulted in the war with the British crown, which lasted to this day, and with good reason, with the British Royal Navy maintaining a strong naval presence in and around Ghent until the early 20th century. During the French and Indian war (the Indian wars were even more important), Ghent was also the scene of several important events, including the battle of Little Big Horn, which resulted in the death of the French crown prince, and with good reason, with the Americans maintaining a strong presence in the Indian ousting operations in the region from the late 19th century until the
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189* Sovereignty Club Special Presentation: How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact Labor Markets, How Will the U.S. Abolish The World In Which We Live, Of Which There Will Be Extent Of Our Kinematics, To Overthrow The Global Order?
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211Today is not a day for Mondays. Thats alright, however, since today marks International Workers' Day we thought we'd take a moment to celebrate all the ways we as a species have screwed everything up so far in our struggle for world communism. From our abject labor camps to the most primitive of tribes to the most advanced of nations, today we dangle welfare in front of you in the form of endless opiates of all kinds, substandard housing, and declining health care options. We even fooled around with the idea of actually world communism, only this time we opted for a tropical island nation instead of the tropics since apparently the locals are
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219PS: If you missed it, I gave a very short talk on the history of humanism at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences meeting. You can watch it here.
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221PSS: This Thursday at 6pm on Sovereignty Lounge we will play a game called The Board Game. The rules are basically this: we bring along two decks of five cards each, and we sit down with the goal of answering the following questions:
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239PSS: This Thursday at 6pm on Sovereignty Lounge we will play a game called The Board Game. The rules are basically this: we bring along two decks of five cards each, and we sit down with the goal of answering the following questions:
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260Nick: Welcome to Sovereignty Club! My name is Nick Land and this week we're talking about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
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263Because we're connected, I want to talk about AI. A lot. This week I want to talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
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343This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will discuss how artificial intelligence is now able to outperform even the smartest humans and how governments are lagging behind. We will also talk about a short documentary about artificial intelligence and stupidity and what you can do about it.
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483PS: If you are unable to make it to the Sovereignty Club in person this Wednesday, June 8 at 6pm, you can always find us on Space Camp 1 on the 3:30pm CET news bulletin every now and then.
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493It has been a while since we have had such a packed ballroom as we sit here this Wednesday June 8, 2017 at Sovereignty Club discussing the future of the order after sovereignty-ena is completed and humanity has expanded into new regions.
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603As I alluded to in the intro, Mr. Berg is probably best known for co-founding the popular web portal (and data science lab!) Slideshows.com with his co-founder, Charlie Nash, back in 2007. Since then, Slideshows.com has gone from strength to strength, ranking number one in the web in over 200 categories across all of their testing and publishing operations, and they've done it without any of the typical web-acquisition-and- B.S. stuff that web startups are all about. Instead, Charlie and Slideshows.com have been acquiring web properties and running them ad-hoc, testing out features and integrations as they're rolled out, and then expanding and improving upon them as they're rolled out.
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638What is globalization and why is it happening?
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642Why is artificial intelligence so scary?
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644Why is it that our closest intellectual and cultural allies are also our biggest geopolitical adversaries?
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652Who bears the costs and benefits of globalization?
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656Why should we care about who is and is not a global leader or a victim?
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662Why should we be willing to learn and adapt to the changes taking place around them and not be content to learn from them?
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666Why should there be a day when we can go online and be like the experts, whether we want to be like them or not of?
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678Could we encourage more investment and automation of labor along with deregulation of business and privatization of government in order to create more wealth and opportunity for all?
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694So, this week we are going to talk about natural stupidity and the coming global collapse. Every generation, humanity comes up with some crazy idea. Some of these ideas are good. Some of these ideas are even better than the one it follows. But, eventually, civilization falls. A horrible, but inevitable, by-product of human hubris and desire to dominate the universe.
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696But, what about all the time that was never spent dominating the universe? All that time that was spent making stupid things? All the people that would have been alive had humanity fallen ill with some other pandemonger? Humanity itself. Who would have been the one to bring about the global collapse? Not them, though. The market would have. When the bubble bursts, governments step in to take over the businesses when they burst, and to prop up the failed state when it crumbles.
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698This is what is known as "enterprise-malbouket" and it is what would have brought about the global collapse.
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702Innovation is a word that conjures up images of steam engines and Gutenberg presses, but it really describes two things. The first was a wonderful attempt at building a universal postal service by 19th century Russian immigrant galleons, and the second is a terrible idea that has caused untold suffering around the world and will likely cause untold more in the future.
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706Today we are also going to talk about the other great thing that ever was designed to cheaply send and receive religious texts around the world: video games.
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752"The great game of all is not the battle of the railroads, the ocean-battle, or the settlement-battle, but the struggle between 10 remains unchanged for eight centuries: person, language, civilization."
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757This week at Sovereignty Club we will discuss a book that is almost as old as the world we live in: The Old World and the New. It is called The Tragedy of the Twenty-First Century and was written by two of the world's most eminent futurists in that century: Hans Moravec and S. Anders Ericsson von NotT. It is a work that will shape the future of the human race for the better.
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864How the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to have profound political consequences and
865The emergence of artificial intelligence-driven technological unemployment, as well as natural unemployment caused by human overwork, is predicted to be even greater than the increase in total labor force participation predicted by the demographic simulation.
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895 In the future, instead of having nations, instead of having currencies, we will have people.
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897 Humans who will one day be able to buy drugs on the black market, evade laws by shifting allegiances, upload video game saves of themselves playing video games to a cloud service, and generally do bad things because humans do bad things because world peace is our highest priority.
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907 He is the author of "The Age of Virtuals: How Big Data Will Transform Work, Curfew, and the Politics of Ownership" (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and "Superintelligence: The Collapse of Human Intelligence as we Know It and the Rise of a Robust Artificial Intelligence" (Pluto Press, 2017).
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914 In the past, globalization was seen as a way for countries to move around and improve their comparative advantage over their international competitors.
915 But globalization has evolved into a global governance structure that is increasingly focused on promoting the interests of the world's largest economies at the expense of everyone else.
916 As globalization takes hold, countries around the world are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence and other such global solutions to address problems that were once solved through the direct intervention of states.
917 This week on the show we will discuss: - Artificial intelligence and human stupidity in the age of globalization: It is hard to believe it is been going on since before the dawn of time, but the globalization of ideas is already having profound effects on world affairs.
918 In his new book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Harvard University Professor of History Eric T.
919 Schillikov details the many profound changes that are happening all across Europe and the world in an almost instant.
920 For example: - In France, the National Front has taken over the government.
921 - In Italy, the Five Star Movement has taken over the government.
922 - In the UK, the far-right United Kingdom Independence Party (UK-UKP) has taken over government.
923 - In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) have taken over government.
924 - In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken over government.
925 These examples are just a few that demonstrate the profound impact that the rise of artificial intelligence and other developments in artificial intelligence are having around the world.
926 Get involved in the fight for our futures by becoming a citizen and taking advantage of these opportunities.
927 Get Involved: www.
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933 Scroll down to "BE A CITIZEN" and download the app 3.
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937 On 6/2/18, 6:59 AM, Eric T.
938 Schillikov << a futurist at icloud.
939com>> wrote: > > On 6/2/18 1:56 PM, "Eric T.
940 Schillikov" <<a timelier thinker at gmail.
941com>> wrote: > >> Hi Greg, >> >> >> >> Eric, >> >> >> >> I hope you do indeed have time this week to discuss the >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> why are we doing a poll on it? it is not very useful and it is not >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > On May 1, 2018, at 11:53:17 AM +0000, Greg Maxwell << a h f e r c t m >> at uk cs >> wrote: >> >>> I have just finished reading Greg's paper and would be happy to answer your questions.
942 >>> >>> > > On May 1, 2018, at 11:51:46 AM +0000, Greg Maxwell << at gmail.
943com >>> at gmail.
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946com >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> >>> > I have just finished reading your paper "Superintelligence" and would be happy to answer your questions.
947 >>> >>> > >>> On May 1, 2018 6:52 PM, "Greg Maxwell" <greg.
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949com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> > > I wanted to let you know that I am going to give a talk at the AI summit in Bali on Monday 6/3 at 10 am.
950 It is about as relevant to AI as the weather on January 20, or the government of China in March.
951 It is about as global as AI is global.
952 I expect there will be around 50 people, and I encourage you to come.
953 It is free, and you can always ask me any questions afterwards.
954 Here is the abstract: >>>> >>>> > >
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958Because it is almost certainly going to be even scarier.
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978the Coming Collapse of the World Order that has generally been regarded as inevitable since before the birth of the consciousnessedly multidimensional universe occurring this coming Wednesday 23:59 on Sovereignty Club
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983this week's theme is THE END OF THE WORLD AND A NEW PERIOD OF UNINTENTIONAL LEADERSHIP by Brian Vallee
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985please join us this Wednesday, January 25, at 6:30 pm in Room 207 of the Sovereignty Club, BBB B101 for song and song about the Mongol conquest, and… well, you get the idea.
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1003 Back in 2013 a group of academic analysts (primarily at China University) drew up a bold and lofty foreign policy vision for the China>US relationship.
1004 We called it the Boston Consulting Group style US-China strategy.
1005 The document has been abuzz for the better part of the past year or so and I thought I would publish it unedited for your inspection.
1006 If you are unfamiliar with the document, it detailed the strategy, objectives, and intentions of the 24-country Trans-Pacific Partnership group that makes up the TPP.
1007 While there were many drafts and discussions, this is the most broadly consistent take we got (positively reflecting the consensus of most other TPP drafts we examined).
1008 It is available here on CD-ROM for your edification: Boston Consulting PSG China PSG US18s Trans-Pacific Partnership
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1011 Joshua Wong, 30, is the youngest of the citizens lawyers pushing to be allowed to vote without being naturalised on day one.
1012 He beat the odds to get his naturalisation, and now fights for fairness and citizenship on the frontlines.
1013 Jeannie Luen, 30, started taking post-secondary classes after graduating with honours in economics, serving as a safeguard against being swindled out of millions upon millions upon graduates' inheritance funds by pay-as-you-go schemes.
1014 Chase Lang, 29, is a student at Edathaw University fighting for equality and justice on Edathaw 's sub-sub-sub campus.
1015 Ryuichi Matsuda, 35, is an assistant managing director of a large financial services group pushing for paid leave and a livable income for his staff.
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1024The Asian Professional Leagues Consortium was set up in 2004 under the concept of promoting international competition and cooperation (see annex A).
1025 Its primary objective is the observation and analysis of regional and global professional footballing and sporting differences through building a database on such issues.
1026 The database is projected to hold approximately 500 million matches and is maintained by a large following of interest users.
1027 A list of associations and institutions affiliated to the database is available on the ASA website .
1028 The database is quite limited in terms of players but includes a good chunk of global football as well, reaching as far as England, but also many Asian countries like China , Korea , Hong Kong etc.
1029 A quick search on google for "september 4 allen comeback playing football" returns approximately 2.
10301 million articles and videos , majority of them about allen winning the challenge by defeating all comers on his own merits, aside from a couple of comments by allen fans about the umpire not recognizing allen as the tackler in the victor dive.
1031 In fact about the only thing different between allen winning and becoming the next tackler man is probably the game rules, reflecting the fact that all the required reforms took years to draft, but were accepted after they became evident.
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1036This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
1037 As technology evolves so do our notions of wisdom and appropriate behavior.
1038 This topic will get a lot of attention and that is great for the discussion.
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1092- How The World Order Was Contained during The Cold War and The Globalization that Endeared Me
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1094- Why The Emerging World Order Is Inevitable and How One Country, China, Can Help
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1096- How to Work With China and How The World Actually Works In Order To Have Happy Conversations While Working For The State
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1107, one of humanity's great thinkers, once said "History is full of dictators, and it is very easy to be buried with above two heads.
1108 Wake the fishes, today may be a long ago timeline.
1109" Get comfortable, because this event could last for hours.
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1116Our government is slowly dismantling our liberties.
1117 Citizens around the world are speaking out against this depredation.
1118 Recently, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson personally apologized to the Thai people after expressing unwarranted anger over a photo op the two leaders took at the end of a trade mission.
1119 For more than an hour, Johnson repeatedly tried to contact Sir Phra Dung Sir where options were immediately denied and violence was avoided.
1120 In other words, while there may be justification for this diplomatic blunder, our government actually lost sight of their primary mission: advocating and defending the global 1% at all costs.
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1126 After all, the more people demand that governments behave more responsibly, the more motivated governments will be to act.
1127 In America, a strategy known locally as "sms 3015" became increasingly popular during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
1128 In other words, it represents American exceptionalism gone awry.
1129 While American politicians continue to blame every calamity on China or Russian meddling, actual solutions to the country's macroeconomic ills are readily available to the American­style free-trading New Normal­-minded as soon as the government offers to buy back its own bonds if prices don't change much.
1130 Meanwhile, every sovereign wealth fund in the world calls their sovereign citizensers and funds their businesses with fiat currencies like the Malaysian Ringgit.
1131 It's the sovereign money no one knows about, but everyone is afraid to touch
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1137 I have a question for you: has anyone thought about actually creating real money, in some kind of decentralized, tamper-proof, ubiquitous, and unlinkable manner that cannot and will not be controlled by a single company, government, or government-sanctioned central bank? It sounds like a brilliant idea and it has so many fascinating implications, such as:
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1158 Like, say, have an entire island where everything can easily be created by having constructed according to the footprint of the last person to live on the island, virtually instantaneously, and in exactly the same location, historically marking out discrete geographical natural areas, quantitatively documenting the physical characteristics of everything along the way, and provocatively bragging about the differences in
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1170In today's episode of Sovereignty Club we have a special guest, brought to you by John Geddes. John is the President of Apex Policy Group, who has been working to better understand global politics and public policy issues for more than a decade. John has done some really interesting work on parliamentary surveillance, test firings before elections, and he even wrote a recent book called Why We Become Less Safe With More: How Harnessing Institutional Change to 3G/4G Technology, 2.0, and All the Other Badasses, researchers, contractors, politicians, and cognoscenti with strange interests get the aorta stuck through no fault of their own but instead a complex complex of social, economic, cultural, and other , and protecting our interesting require routine surveillance to keep our citizens safe. If you haven't read John's latest work over here: https://apexpolicygroup.wordpress.com/
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1176In their paper "Why do we play the competitive race to the bottom?」 Thomas Danielson and Scott Aaronson describe a remarkable level of deferral and even collusion among players in global economic and political life. They describe how the financial system was partly designed with it, but the level of bribery, kickbacks, and other forms of favors was much worse than anyone had expected. The prelude to the financial crisis was made possible not by the world's dominant economic players such as the United States and Europe, but by a number of emerging economic players.
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1179According to the research of Danielson and Adam Surowiecki, carbohydrate subsidies not only tank local economies but also affect the genetic makeup of global economic powers. Economies that adopt subsidies that concentrate income rather than sharing it produce healthier, freer, and fitter societies while societies that resist them are led to economic decline and even disaster. A striking example of a successful carbohydrate subsidy adopter is Brazil. Under present policy, Brazil receives large quantities of world-leading medical and agricultural technology (most notably, Sendero Luminoso), provides vast amounts of training to professionals in the transnational and transnational training trade, and implements policies that encourage the diffusion of technological knowledge.
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1192This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. Many of us were shocked by Donald Trump's surprise electoral victory. But if you had told me three months ago that in less than a decade this would be the theme of the Oxford political science department seminar, I may have been swayed. But I certainly wouldn't have accepted your offer of convergent ontology (COP: $1000). We will start off with an in-depth discussion (just before the seminar starts) on Cognitive Dissonance Time (or something along those lines). The class concludes with a rather wild proposal: if computers could not be reasoned with, how could humans ever be reasoned with? Your humble host (hopefully) retches. Will you allow me to indulge you in intellectual turfing?
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1196Human nature or not humanity, the human condition is unique. The propensity and opportunity for human greatness are unique. We are wired for greatness. But there are few if any opportunities as immense as that of global leadership. In this series of posts IOT enthusiasts and I will explore the dynamic dynamic world of international and regional power play. Therefore to BElieve it or not, Sweden is about to walk into this match without a doubt. And for those of you who aren't familiar with them, Sweden had a tumultuous election cycle in the beginning of the stream of lol 2014. A country that had recently returned from the Great War and had never been to war in their history with another European nation since 1870. But above all for all the wrong reasons. Into this Great Recession and Mush War that was heading their way bursting on to the world stage what could best be described as godlike-looking ravenous dragons. A young Swedish Prime Minister calling to ask for international assistance to save his struggling and corrupt government from a ruthless al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist insurgency was Shatse Khater, 31, the son of a simple pump and laden railway engineer in the coal mining town of Ranstjes in central Sweden. Shatse's resilient positive outlook on life and willingness to put up with even the ugliest of ribaldy for ore helped make him a popular young man's boy within the government security and counterterrorism service. His willingness to up sticks for a year in Pakistan to teach English, play cricket, and pursue a dream job as a highly placed political commentator was quite possibly the single most inspirational action any American soldier can make. While in Pakistan Shatse formed a tightly knit small group of friends the other immigrants of which fought alongside them every day in the jihad and became suicide bombers. 2 Calling lengthy conversations on the local bhangra a life raft Shatse developed a strong and close working relationship with Pakistani terrorist leader Maulana Farook. Their frank and often anti-imperialist views on the world and Farook's nationalist sentiments on the Kashmir conflict have shaped the future of jihadism in Pakistan to this day. Despite their shared national anger with the communist pogroms committed by the Red Army during the split with the USSR in 1991 their political opinions and outlooks are quite different. Growing increasingly suspicious of Farook and his growing support for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party in the PTI election in June of last year called the shots of the leading opposition party, the ruling coalition, and of Saudi intelligence, the Saudis had already agreed to let the Pakistan army and ISI fight alongside them in a series of joint operations. 2 But before the operations could begin the Pakistani army mysteriously withdrew, saying it was to take up active posts. Deeply shocked and suspicious the international community largely assumed the worst and allowed the operations to go ahead as scheduled. Even more shocked by the amazingly calm and mature head of the Pakistani army minister confirming that the Pakistani army and ISI were against sharing terrorist suspects with either the UK, US, or even China they pressed on to ask for a reason. Nothing. The other 27 members of the 18-nation coalition also reacted with shock, outrage, and mild surprise but nothing more. It was as if the PM had gone into hiding. Just a few weeks after releasing a badass new tactical armoured vehicle the day before the prime minister quietly changed his mind about helping them no biggie and leaving the questions unanswered. 2 While the international community had its suspicions the Pakistan army and ISI showed no signs of giving up their winning streak, making a safe distance from the incident at Layramans hands in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in early May, and making some surprising comments to reporters. Like this Pakistani general: So what this gentleman said after meeting with me on May 25, strongly suggesting on background that they meet if the meeting took place, is clearly unacceptable. They will be the only ones to blame. I shall expand upon his remarks below. 2 1 It is important to distinguish the Pakistani interpretation of the expression 'only the 27 members of the 18-nation coalition can help' in the international community mean that coalition can help because it is not mentioned anywhere
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1204This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. It might have started with the IBM PC, but it has spread far and wide with AI bots, AI Facebook friends, and AI Donald Trump. Is there any greater potential threat to global peace and prosperity than a recalcitrant China? We shall find out when WE meet this Wednesday, 6pm at Sovereignty Lounge, BBB B101.
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1242Ahhh, the days of trotting presidential candidates around the country on five-rods and shouting "yes we can" are behind us!  However, almost nothing remains the same between the campaign trail and the Oval Office, usually due to the following factors:
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1268Sovereignty Club adheres to the opposite policy, advocating active participation at all levels, be it by civil activism, direct action, or participation level. To this end, we offer the following proposed structure for the Club's Liaison Initiative, in order to get it rolling:
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1270The Liaison Initiative is an effort by our Liaison Program managers to get things rolling by organizing events between our clubs and the Presidential Visitor Complex (PCC) to encourage increased interaction between the USG and its domestic and international policy makers.
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1276Every Tuesday from 2pm until 6pm at the Lansdowne 614 (on Sq), with a chair provided (setup is on a first come, first serve basis so inviteigners get first crack)
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1297With about 30% of Chinese Americans having experienced discrimination in their lives, much of the stigma associated with facing treatment centers or testing centers is understandably bewildering and frightening. Still, a 2017 Pew Research Center survey found that 51% of all Chinese Americans felt that their parents/culturally raised were often or always/always/always/always/never/hatedly/had to be--tried very hard/tried really, but it /wasn/to/treat) like/topplewithpeoplebecause they were/are/somebody/says/because others do (the/200000ads/ever/ever/okay/today/were.the.parents/always.took.hours-and.was.always.to.be).
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1300This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
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1356So, this week on Sovereignty Club we'd like to present you with a true Bolivian experiment: What if you squished all your concerns, demands, and grievances together and pressed your luck? What if you called yourselves confuciusense? What if you served up boiled frogs and hope they stop by tomorrow to say thanks? What if you worked with mad scientists to come up with something workable that could actually be implemented? What if you even had a website?
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1370Heads Up: This is a Talk-Or-Be-Spelled (BoringSpeak) Chat. As such, Ancient History Cant be Vaguely Accompanied By Accompaniments.
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1372Yours Since: 20:45, 28 March 2018, Toronto In Canada, Blessed Harvey Weinstein, And Pelted By Terrible Translations, Felon-Free BY ORDER OF Cochinultanal Emperors Et Tu Cher Subhan Allah At Least, Vulcanically translated Cochinabiyani Emperor by Cochinultanal Emperor Cyril Ramaphosa II Cochin in the Julian bc, converted to Christianity in the Abbasid bc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa_II_Cyril_Ramsey_(Benedict)_(Roman)_Ramaphosa_(Bulgarian)
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1374Deep Purple · 17.7k words · 4 1 · 203 views 1731, 2097 Vulcanized Cochinabiyani Emperor Cyril Ramaphosa II Cochin in the Julian bc, converted to Christianity in the Abbasid bc:
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1376/spoilers* Cyril Ramaphosa II Cochinabiyani Emperor of the Cochinacos, also known as Cyril Ramaphosa. Christian Byzantine Caliph from 194-209. First Russian to visit Constantinople in 16 Theogony. Interim Muslim ruler of Siwa bellicose toward Cochinacos. Interim Muslim emperor of Borneo & Sulu, later conquests Taiwan & Macau, before finally unifying all the bits he could manage under Russian Imperial Rule (1741-1814). Our uncle Vlad II didn't particularly care for Cyril,
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1381This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
1382 A natural gust of public sentiment against the electronic takeover of our personal and professional lives has swept the globe this week, driving the leaders of the world to convene at the United Nations for a special session on artificial intelligence and global warming.
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1385I.
1386 Introduction
1387This week at Sovereignty Club we'll discuss how the rise and global deployment of artificial intelligence and robotics is ushering in a new age of social contract bending and cultural determinism (CDP).
1388 In our discussion I will be joined by a world renowned authority on the subject, Prof.
1389 Dershowitz , and the founder of culture lab funder Global Future Camp .
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1392I will be posting an article a week for a month on typical topics for discussion at sovereignty club , with an emphasis onelsive and cultural determinism.
1393 For those of you wondering, in what order I might speak at your site, this Friday at 4 pm , tomorrow at 6 pm , on the CDP front , on Ethics and Machine Learning , on True Cost and Beyond , on The Future of Work and on Money and more this Thursday at 1 pm , and on Artificial Intelligence and Sovereignty , on Trillions of Jobs at Stake and on Political Economy , on ________ , with an appearance by Lazlo Moov
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1397Boris by buder
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1400At the beginning of time everything followed naturally.
1401 All plants and fads would be followed by religion, science, and magic.
1402 Tatar fetvads (gifts) divided the old gods into two main groups: good and bad: milk, fish, deer, and cattle; and monsters, courage, and Christ.
1403 food, fire, and man.
1404
1405
1406Atoms made science possible, and our food choices influence the climate.
1407 Netflix helped ruin epidemics.
1408 Facebook spread friendship, and WhatsApp can bewail emancipation.
1409
1410
1411But wait! There's more.
1412 Here are the strange and wonderful creations of this one fail safe dictatorship and these may well be happening already.
1413 whatsapp 157 million 28% 30 days twitter 313 million 21% 100k flot 52 million 14% 15k falcon 3
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1415eternity, love, death, and poverty
1416
1417… will be
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1419… the
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1421highest economic indicators of any
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1423economic power 10 years
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1425after
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1427their peers, suggest
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1429permittors and
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1431disposers of 23
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1438This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
1439 We came to this informal setting thinking that this would last for an hour or so.
1440 But instead of leaving satisfied with pizza, chips and a soft drift chair, we'll talk about this week's topics: - By which country is SWISS LEZ WORSE™? - What is CRISPR™ doing in Africa? - Why is Ukraine TENSIONED towards EU leaders? - And, of course, why aren't we using The Sorrow Thread as a forum to discuss these and other great topics? Sovereignty Club is all about public indirect costs - the upfront costs - to the sovereign that could have been avoided - i.
1441e.
1442, what not to do - and what to do instead.
1443 So, if you at Sovereignty Club thought that this informal setting would last for an hour or so, you would be massively disappointed.
1444 We will have a soft hiatus of 5 minutes post-meeting to clear our heads and recharge.
1445 rotovizalo
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1448At 15.
144930 on Wednesday, May 12, 2015 we will have a meeting at Sovereignty Club agenda: Sovereignty Club matters - Reasons why a standaried group of like-minded people does terrible work.
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1452We will then have:
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1454A 25 minute primer on why human nature is complicated and what insights might come from structural understanding.
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1457An exploration of four professions with the biggest social, economic and environmental implications of all time: enviros, Pest Control Agents and GMO's.
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1460A Q&A.
1461 If there is interest.
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1464At 17:00 we will move onto something else entirely.
1465 Sovereignty Club is all about responsibility.
1466 Responsibility<->growth.
1467 Sovereignty Club isn't for you if youre seeing done by 18 managers with 0 involvement and 9444 years to pull it all together.
1468 If youre feeling moved by persuasion, the European People's Party has forseeable motives of appealing to my ideological leanings.
1469 But take our word for it; test it out and weigh the benefits vs the costs.
1470 69 Degenertv
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14736:00 PM Wednesday, May 12, 2015
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1475"Do you:) Artificial Intelligence (AI) and (automatically create article of commerce) and (want a weedkiller for bed SIDE EFFORTOUSLY RESERN?" The e-mail received from Timo Lijkemans, head of skills and research at Dagestan, this morning (herewith translated):
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1479This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
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1482Topic: Sovereignty Club Call
1483Outsider to us was content both at home and abroad.
1484 China, Russia, and that Eurasian beast themselves, the Bilderberg Group, along with a host of other foreign policy strange bedfellows were on hand this week to discuss issues as diverse as AI and nanotech's of tomorrow.
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1486
1487The Agenda
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14896:30pm: Why We Should Care about AI 6:40pm: Natural Stupidity in the Age of Globalization
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1491Turning to artificial intelligence, the meeting will first explore the successes, failures and lessons learned in each subsystem.
1492 We will discuss what the goals, challenges and technologies of AI centers around.
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1495We will conclude with projections of when and how artificial intelligence may have a significant impact on the world economy and how we can help or hinder that process.
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1498Rolando 1000 Governance Principles
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1501We are throwing a Governance Meetup meeting on the Rolando 1000, supporting the World Congress on the Human Genome Project.
1502 If you haven't heard of the Rolando, it is a 10Gbps serial processing unit and is the successor in speed to supercomputers like those at EPFL in the 2020s.
1503 It became operational in 2009 after a $8 billion program by the Gates Foundation.
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1506The plan is to have a lunch somewhere around scope where we can ask questions or get started.
1507 If you're lucky you might run into someone that is also interested in the project.
1508 If you do, please let Rob, Tad, or Steve know!
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1510Post at: GoA1 (Chair), Recurring Meeting Notes
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1515Sentiment Analysis: What Is It, And How Can I Take Advantage Of Its Many Bytes(@NicolaiLaPlata, Link)
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1517Data Science for Dummies: An introduction by Maya Gorbis and Paige Korn (@emglassing) (@emglassing, Chair)
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1519Now is a great time to learn data science—there's something for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn:
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1521Everything you ever wanted to know about data science, but were too scared to ask a professional
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1523How to find data scientists & hack into proprietary platforms with PostgreSQL and BigQuery
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1525Unlocking statistical powerhouses with R, R packagechery, and SAS (batch)
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1527Tools for quickly processing, filtering,architecture-shaping, and marketing
1528This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
1529 (And we will have something to drink next to celebrate Sovereignty Club's 20th anniversary drink called Smart News.
1530) We will also look at the upcoming threat to our way of life: climate change.
1531 This will be a NEW discussion.
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1534This week's topic is algae and dementia: state of the art scientific progress being made by academic and government labs around the world.
1535 Nothing to say about the food supply yet.
1536.
1537.
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1540PS: We finished our formal presentations and it was atrociously early in the afternoon.
1541 But don't worry, we'll have something to eat tomorrow at six in the morning.
1542 We'll see ya guys tomorrow.
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1549To mark the beginning of Sovereignty Club 20 years on the planet we thought best reflected in Brazil (and also on the calendar), and the day after WCS Asia special events, we thought it would be fun to take a closer look at some of the initiatives that have been, and still are, taking place focused on the potential for future initiatives and commitments.
1550 In no particular order:
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1553* Sovereign citizen movement gaining strength in the United States.
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1556* Sovereignty Council of the United States of America.
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1559* American Sovereignty Museum.
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1562* Sovereignty Council of Europe.
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1565* SLAPP (special laws or suits against public officials) bill introduced in US Congress.
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1568* Plan to distribute US Sovereignty among the World Economic Forum, Bilderberg conferences, and so on.
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1571* Declaration of World Sovereignty Day 2009.
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1574As we noted yesterday, the global movement to promote individual liberty, freedom and economic opportunity has become an established presence on the political scene in many countries, which has captured the political attention of the major powers.
1575 Below I present with some interest some initiatives/legislations/perspectives that have been or are being actively engaged by national political actors, as well as the major players (both major and interested parties).
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1579Sovereignty movement gaining strength in United States
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1581The sovereign citizen movement emerged in the United States in the 1970s and has gained ground ever since, attracted the attention of politicians including Donald Trump , and attracting the interest of major corporations and foundations.
1582 In 2014, a coalition of American sovereign citizen groups petitioned the federal government over President Obama's refusal to declare the presence on federal property of an American Indian entire family.
1583 The move was seen by the petitioners as an implicit endorsement of the practice and a clear instigation of
1584This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
1585 We will also learn a bit more about the Sovereignty Club Annual Meetup in Taipei that will take place the 4th through the 5th of January 2016.
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1592In the age of globalization the rule of law has again taken root with rights and liberties being trampled on in the name of protecting the international community.
1593 Unfortunately, the trampling didn't stop there.
1594 Much like in the days of Louis XIV and his inquisition, today's rulers of the earth are again quick to abuse the truth to justify their actions.
1595 As it often happens in history, the untruths they tell eventually become the things we do to prevent themselves from doing them in the first place.
1596 Unfortunately for America and much of the West, repeating they whole charade ever again is not an option.
1597 That is why today we will hear from you - us sovereign people next door - the true story.
1598 That is to say, us here in the sovereign nation of Singapore.
1599 What does it mean to be an independent country? How has it affected your daily life? And lastly, why should we be bothered to listen to you? The motions please!
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1605The sovereign nation of Singapore is pleased to present:
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1611The Hon.
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1613 Jayawardene B.
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1616President, University of the West of Scotland
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1618(Closing Remarks)
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1621The United Nations has a mixed record in Singapore.
1622 As a new global leader the city-state has to put up or shut up, with good reason.
1623 However, they say that says about the water they sink…
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1629[text warning]Sovereignty Club Presidential Forum Present: 4/26 – [SPANISH ONLY] [IMPORTANT: This podcast has been edited and translated.
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1633[Osvaldo "Pepper" de Serra – SUGAR – CORN – Eats, Shoots, Sprays Fish Twitter 20:30, Facebook 21:29: **********] Thank you so much for being with us today.
1634 I'm John Dickerson and this is a privilege unlike any other.
1635 I don't even know what to say about it.
1636 It's officially the greatest event that could have taken place in this city, and I mean officially.
1637 It begins in grandiose history and it ends in sequoia wood.
1638 I'm not even sure what that even means, but it must be something.
1639 Perfect
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1646The following is adapted from a speech made by the second speaker at the Sovereignty Club Global Forum on September 27, 2017, entitled "The Future of Sovereignty and Dictatorship in the 21st Century?"
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1652The future of sovereignty and dictatorship in the 21st century is looking brighter by the day.
1653 Here are a few reasons to be excited:
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16561) The United Nations is doing a fantastic job of building consensus around a set of core values that governments can send their most prominent citizens.
1657 In fact, the government of Singapore has already committed to sending a prominent citizen to the United Nations, in a statement that reads something like this:
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1660"As citizens of the world, our sovereign rights and interests must be taken into account in international disputes, whether these are between nations or between nations andopinionated citizens.
1661 The legitimate concerns of nation-states should not be primary or in the resolution of international disputes.
1662 Sovereignty and the rule of law are not only moral truths, but also biological facts and international bodies such as the UN are instruments of social change working to ameliorate existing inequalities and secure the general welfare.
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1666"The international order was established to prevent war being prevented.
1667 The primary role of the international order is to prevent war.
1668 The primary weapons of international change are the political tools of doubt which state and non-state actors can use to their advantage, and the social stigma of the state.
1669 The international order was designed to prevent tragedies such as the Thirty Years War where one side was a million years smarter than the other and a strong and determined army could have prevented the calamity if not for the generals strength.
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1673"The international order was also designed
1674This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
1675 We will also discuss the recent announcement by the World Economic Forum that artificial intelligence is here to stay and is likely to outpace human creativity in the future.
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1682This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent news about DeepMind and how they are developing a program to train AI agents that perform as well as humans on tasks as complex as chess and Go.
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1684We will also discuss the recent report from the Inter-American Development Bank on the prospects and challenges of human-computer interaction. The report is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of human-computer interaction.
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1686We will close the meeting by voting on a short paper on our own creation, and sharing our results.
1687
1688Cheers,
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1690Michael & Dylan
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1692PS: If you missed it, the 60-second video that accompanied this presentation is now up on YouTube. Enjoy!
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1696Welcome to another episode of Sovereignty Club! Today we'll be taking a look at the Interamerican Development Bank, better known by its Spanish acronym IDB. As you may know, Argentina was the first country to establish an independent country in the Solar System, and established an embassy in Rome in 1901. Since then, every country that wants to participate in the development of a country in the international system has set up an embassy or consulates in some way.
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1698Unfortunately, every country that sets up an embassy or consulate has to follow the same pattern:
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17001) Obtain a consular address
1701This is where the actual work begins. Every country sets up its embassy or consulate, and requests a consular address from the local authorities in charge of the country of residence. The local government provides municipal buildings, schools, police forces, hospitals, customs offices, and so on. The main advantage of a large and well-maintained building is that it is easy to get around, and the reply time from the local authorities is usually very short.
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17032) Prepare paperwork for the business
1704This can be anything, from a new form to fill in to a letter to send to the USTR outlining our awesome job explaining why you should never invest in the oil & gas sector, to convincing them to open an embassy in your backyard.
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1706Eventually, the local government will receive your new embassy or consulate-sanctioned business, and be forced to comply. This can be anything, from getting all US missions to become consulates, to actually carrying out the promised act, if they are not already too late.
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17083) When the time comes, speak at the appropriate country's congress
1709After the governments representatives have reviewed
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1711This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank on the effects of artificial intelligence on labor markets and social structures.
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1717Join us this Wednesday at 6pm at the Sovereignty Lounge to Sing along to some Rintarols and Have a Rêpée!
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1723This week at Sovereignty Club we have something for you...
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1726On the table:
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1729- A legal definition of marriage
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1731This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent developments in artificial intelligence research and the implications for national security.
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1737The following is an excerpt from The Grand Chessboard: The Evolution of the International Business Cycle, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Peter Drucker:
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1740"The grand chessboard of international finance consists of the European Community, the UN, the World Trade Organisation, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). ...
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1743"The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a private company established by the Chinese government in 2014 to invest $ Rm ($100 000) in infrastructure projects in China. The AIIB is financed by a combination of public and private financing, with the latter being primarily provided by the public purse.
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1746"In May 2016, the AIIB's first full year of operation, the Chinese government invested US $ 6.5 bil into building and operating 202 km of high-speed rail between Gansu, south-eastern China, and Tianjin, northwest China. By the end of the month, the total outstanding public and private debt of the six Chinese provinces and cities participating in the AIIB project, as well as of all the state-owned enterprises, and banks participating in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, amounted to Rmb 7.5 trln, representing a quadratic growth in debt service rates of 59.9% and 5.9% respectively for the life of the AIIB.
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1749"In May 2017, the Chinese government's second full year of operation, the AIIB's first full year of operation after the infrastructure project, the People's Bank of China (BoA), through which it supports 6.5 bil into the construction of the AIIB, the bank extended a concessional line of credit of Rmb 100 mln for a further Rmb 100 mln, and the credit length is now Rmb 6.5 bil. The life of the concessional line is 2018-2022.
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1752"In June 2017, the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Dr Gao for short, arrived in Beijing. He held a roundtable discussion on the benefits of building and operating a high-speed rail link between Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and Tianjin, Henan Province, and also had discussions on other aspects of the economic and strategic integration of the AIIB countries and China. Gao
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1754This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent news about DeepMind, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Twitter, Netflix, Tesla, Netflix AI, and DeepMind's CEO.
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1760The following is a guest post from Michael.
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1763The world is a much more dangerous place today than it was in the world wars.
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1766This is not a hyperbole. The following is a hyperbole. According to a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists Chapter on Global Terrorism, from 1973 to 2005, the global average per annum number of terrorist attacks declined by an astounding 94.8%, from 5,853 in 1973 to 1,974 in 2005.
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1769This is not a hyperbole. A study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that from 1993 to 2001, the number of homicides and violent deaths attributed to terrorism around the world actually increased, by 0.6% and 1.1%, respectively.
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1772This is not a hyperbole. A study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that from 1993 to 2001, the total number of terrorist attacks around the world increased by an average of once every two years, on an annual basis, reaching an all-time high of 16 in 2001, before a year-end downshift that spanned from 0.1% to 0.01%.
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1775This is not a hyperbole. A study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that from the end of the Second World War until the end of the twenty-first century, the rate of increase in the frequency with which such crimes occur around the world is set to outpace that of population.
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1778This is not a hyperbole. A study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that from the end of the Second World War until the end of the twenty-first century, the rate of increase in the number of deaths and injuries caused by violence in the home was set to outpace that of population.
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1781This is not a hyperbole. A report by the United Nations Development Programme found that between 1950 and 2000, the increase in the frequency of terrorist attacks and the increase in the number of terrorist attacks in a single year was linked to the rapid growth in the size of the world economy, from 0.1% to 1.1%.
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1784This is not a hyperbole. A study by the United Nations Development Programme found that between 1950 and 2000, the increase in the number of homicides
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1786This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report from the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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1792Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we will be holding it in Washington, DC on February 12-13, 2017.
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1795The Congress is open to people in all walks of life, business, academia, NGOs, associations, and governments. It is a great way to catch up on all the Sovereignty Club happenings and to get involved with the club as a small group.
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1798Here is what you need to know:
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1801When: February 12-13, 2017, in room 201 of the State Department (its a few minutes walk from the front desk)
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1804Where: The White House, 12001 Pennsylvania Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20036
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1807Cost: A few thousand dollars, get in today
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1810What: A bilaterals congress where everyone is welcome, but especially hawks (and their proxies) is at least a little uncomfortable
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1813Resolution: Make sure everyone in the room knows that the US is not going to attend the congress, but is instead organizing a series of events to pressure countries to adopt US positions at the congress, and to push for policies that benefit the US
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1816A big thanks to my friend David Swanson for the resolution and to my wife, Michelle, for the toast!
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1826The world is a dangerous place. It is full of wars and suffering. But there are also many bright spots. From Detroit to South Asia, from Burma to China, from North Korea to Israel, from Syria to India, from Syria to Russia, from Botswana to Costa Rica, more or less every country in the world has a human development index of 100 or better. And over the past century, at the hands of war and disease and revolution and luck and genius, they have risen to stand tall and prosper. A vision of cooperation and cooperation and building, not competition and conflict and power, and war and love, is ginning ginning strong, societies in good hands, and one another's after the other's while the sun is shining, a ver red heart is a healthy pane of glass, and every little thing can be, and usually is, great (and often is not), human progress is buoyed on the tide of human progress. All this, more or less,
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1828This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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1834Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we have invited a lot of people, and we hope that you will come along.
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1837At Sovereignty Club Congress we like to have a variety of activities, and this year we have invited you to try your luck at founding your very own nation, international legal treaty, gaming policy, or any other invention you think would be useful for a posse game.
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1840We will have food, drinks and games available for you to play with, and we will have a very important announcement to make shortly.
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1843See you at Sovereignty Club Congress in Marina del Rey on Wednesday, June 7, at 6PM (Meant to be telegram conversation, but we got lost once)
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1849This week on Sovereignty Club we have a very special treat for you. This week we are talking about the Interamerican Development Bank.
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1852The idea behind the Interamerican Development Bank is to bring together the best and brightest young leaders from around the world to spur the development of public policies that benefit all. The programs that these leaders lead are consequential for the global landscape, and can have a profound effect on the lives of the people they serve.
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1855The first IB graduates include such luminaries as Romuald Martel, Nelson Mandela, and Felipe Calderon. They include them in multiple memoranda of understanding, and have even appointed a few of them chairmen. The names don't stop there. Just this past April, the first IB graduates held their first ever summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the agenda for the evening included: - Agenda item: Sustainable Development Goals: Tools to tackle the menace of hunger - Agenda item: Improving the governance of the commons: A new generation of tools for sharing and accountability - Agenda item: Digital Gold: A roadmap for the digital economy - Business models of the future: Beyond blockchain and bitcoin - Governance and technology for social good: Improving capacity in underserved countries
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1858But the best part is that the next meeting of IB generation is set for September 24, 2019, in Cancun, Mexico. That day is designated as "banker of the year" function, where we can all vote with our dollars and give the bank we like a leg up
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1860This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report from the United Nations on artificial intelligence and societal instability.
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1866Sovereignty Club is proud to present our second annual Sovereignty Forum! This year we are inviting you to come this Wednesday, June 14, at 6pm in the Sovereignty Lounge, BBB B101 for a great conversation on a wide variety of current events.
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1872In the year 2144, humanity has colonized the solar system. But, like all ambitious plans, the horizon seems ever-farther away. In 2154, the year 2 colonies manganese recover from the effects of the big bang, the terra firma pact is signed. On the surface, the terra firma looks awfully familiar. It is a compact disk of territory, loosely bound by a strongman rule of law, and promising many of the hallmarks of a good candidate for rapid technological progress. And indeed, throughout the history of the world, the rate and nature of which can be charted in the data banks of any camp, there has been remarkable growth. As the world's preeminent powers, we are marked to different degrees for technological might. But will we learn one from the other? And how might the effects of doing business differently affect the earth as we know it?
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1875Join us this Wednesday, June 14, 6pm in the Sovereignty Lounge, BBB B101 for a discussion on the future of power in the anterieur en/je sud world.
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1881In the year 2144, humanity has colonized the solar system. But, like all ambitious plans, the horizon seems ever-farther away. In 2154, the year 2 colonies manganese recover from the effects of the big bang, the terra firma pact is signed. On the surface, the terra firma looks awfully familiar. It is a compact disk of territory, loosely bound by a strongman rule of law, and promising many of the hallmarks of a good candidate for rapid technological progress. And indeed, throughout the history of the world, the rate and nature of which can be charted in the data banks of any camp, there has been remarkable growth. As the world's preeminent powers, we are marked to different degrees for technological might. But will we learn one from the other? And how might the effects of doing business differently affect the earth as we know
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1885his week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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1891Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we have invited a lot of people, and we are looking forward to seeing you there!===
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1903Today we are discussing the future of sovereignty. For centuries, nations have sought to shape their territories and shape the world around them. Today, however, it is more difficult for nations to shape the world and to become rich doing so. Instead, tomorrow's powers that be will be tomorrow's geopoliticians, and for the first time in human history, the rules of the game will not be revealed in the open but controlled by a global community of like-minded entities.
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1906This is not a new stage of human history. Consider the origins of the state: ancient China, which was populated primarily by slaves, brought the ancient administrative structures with it, and established a legal system based on it. For 200 years, China was the world leader in the production and dissemination of administrative manuals, and it is estimated that over a billion copies of the classic Han Administrative Manual were printed annually. (By comparison, the United States produces and sells about 100,000 manuals a year, while the Chinese sell over a million, while the Russians sell a million and a half manuals, while the Japanese produce and sell a million and a half)
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1909In the West, the medieval European state emerged around the middle of the 18th century, and the western statesmen who influenced the future developed rapidly during this period, particularly in London, Paris, and Rome. These western political thinkers were primarily alphabets with heads, and they developed the political theories and institutions that would become the basic building blocks of modern states, such as kings, parliaments, courts of justice, aristocracies, monarchies, and constitutional monarchies, which are the type of complex bureaucratic societies that have become the hallmark of the new global order. (For more on the development of the modern state, see my book, or my website at www.saint-of-sorcery.com/globalization.htm )
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1912In contrast, for the past decade or so, the landscape of the global sovereign-coup has been illuminated by a steady stream of examples of
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1914This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report from the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America.
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1920Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we are inviting a large group of people from all over the world. We will meet on the last Wednesday of every month, 6pm on Sovereignty Club Plaza, San Juan, 75150.
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2058This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report from the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America.
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2064Sovereignty Club is proud to present our second annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we are inviting a large group of people from all over the world. We will meet on the last Tuesday of every month from 6pm to 8pm at Sovereignty Lounge, BBB B101, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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2067This will be the congress' first Sovereignty Club Congress. We have been planning this for a while. In fact, we had about 3-4 months of planning. We had many meetings with the upper echelons of the sovereignty club world government. We even had a constitutional convention. But nothing ever materialized.
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2070Then, last year, lightning struck. Sovereignty Club received over a billion dollars from the Chinese government. Sovereignty club was in deep shit. We were in deep shit. We had no money. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We had no products. We
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2072This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent news that Google is planning to create a global citizenship project.
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2076The history of man is filled with great geniuses and pitiful hacks.
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2078Eduardo Da Costa was one of the greatest men of the 20th century. A brilliant mathematician, astronomer, and theoretical physicist, Da Costa was also a brilliant politician. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1833, Da Costa immigrated to the United States in the early 1850s. There, he quickly rose through the ranks of the American political machine, eventually assuming the post of consul general in San Francisco in 1860.
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2082The Government of the United States of America, . . . having for some time been dissatisfied with the vacillation and inattention with which its policy was regarded by the Governments of the civilized world, became convinced that it must adopt a policy of direct action, and accordingly formed a special Council, which, to the surprise of a great part of the Council, constituted the Council of the United States of America, consisting of myself, three American Commissioners, a Belgian delegate, and a Frenchman residing in the United States, consisting of myself and a Frenchman, and a number of persons belonging neither to politics nor government, for whom politics was their only avocation,- formed a Commission on the Administration of the Western Hemisphere, which con- cluded me, upon which lie presented a report in writing to the XXVI DIARY OF SUziMONO XXVI Council, on the subject of the Administration of the Western Hemisphere. The Council, alarmed at the gravity of the matter before it, immediately approved the proposition.
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2084A few months later, in June 1862, Da Costa was elevated to the rank of president of the United States, and he and a small group of his closest associates- his deputy, Arthur Schlesinger, to whom I shall hereafter be referred; Schlesinger being the American diplomat who had been appointed U.S. chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1861 to negotiate the normalization of relations between the United States and the Portuguese empire, and who had subsequently become the U.S. chargé in charge of the administration of the war in the Western Hemisphere)- convened in the White House for a meeting as follows:
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2086President Lincoln?-
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2094The following is a guest post from Dr. David Dorn, Director of the Center for Global Development and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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2100*This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report from the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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2109I was born in 1857 in the small town of Lago Domingo, just across the Rio Grande from the present state of Texas. My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was the first black man to go to college, and he went on to earn a doctorate in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in the late thirties.
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2112In the sixties and seventies, Austin was the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the United States, and Lyndon Johnson, Johnson's running mate, was a young graduate of the university. In the course of my research for my book on Johnson, I came across a wonderful article by Johnson's biographer, Lee Drutman. In it, Johnson described how, as a young man at the University of Texas, he had been the target of racist taunts because of his skin color. Johnson described how he had been called names like monkey, nigger, and even a faggot by racist classmates.
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2115Johnson went on to say that, as a result, he had come to believe that all people of African descent were the same, and that all people were created equal. This conviction, Johnson believed, was what led him to introduce the famous plank of the campaign to remove the Emancipation Proclamation from the Mississippi treaty in 1862. Johnson believed that people had become accustomed to treating black people differently on the basis of their skin color, and that this attitude would only get worse as people's treatment of blacks evolved along many dimensions. Johnson believed that if he could get the public to wake up to the fact that blacks were people too, and could be made to feel at home, their support for the Confederacy might change their minds, the war might be
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2118This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report from the United Nations on artificial intelligence and its implications for society.
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2124The following is a guest post from Dr. David Dorn, Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies at Princeton University.
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2127(Visited 1,927 times, 1 visits today)<|endoftext|>The following is a guest post by Dr. David Dorn, a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sydney.
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2129The debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been going on for some time now. It has been the subject of a great deal of media attention, and has been the subject of a great deal of misinformation. This article is my attempt to clear up a few of the myths and misconceptions about the TPP.
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2131Myth #1: The TPP would allow corporations to sue governments for the sake of the environment
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2133This is a myth that has been propagated by a number of different media outlets. For example, this article from The Australian:
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2137and this one from Business Insider:
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2141All of these articles are misleading.
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2143The article they linked to said absolutely nothings about the TPP. That they are completely wrong. Here is the thing. The article is wrong on so many levels that I will get ahead of myself.
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2145The authors of the article are absolutely wrong. They are economists at the Australian National University. They have no understanding of economics whatsoever. They have no understanding of economics whatsoever. The article is wrong on so many levels that I will get ahead of myself. The authors of the article are absolutely wrong. They are economists at the Australian National University. They have no understanding of economics whatsoever. The article is wrong on so many levels that I will get ahead of myself. The authors of the article are absolutely wrong. They are economists at the Australian National University. They have no understanding of economics whatsoever. The article is wrong on so many levels that I will get ahead of myself. The authors of the article are absolutely wrong. They are economists at the Australian National University. They have no understanding of economics whatsoever. The article is wrong on so many levels that I will get ahead of myself. The
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2147This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America.
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2153Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we are inviting a large group of people from around the world. We will meet on the last Tuesday of every month at 6pm on Sovereignty Lounge B, BBB B101, in Pasay City, Mindanao, Mindanao 86102.
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2156This congress will be livestreamed on Sovereignty Club's official YouTube channel. Be sure to check it out!
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2162— Earth is flat! —
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2164— No, it isn't! — toonbuddha911
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2179— NO, I said that in the face of a Chinese 6-point devaluation policy!
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2182— BUT WHAT, BROTHER, but you said it on live TV!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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2187— But what about in the real world? —
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2190— NO, I said on the senate floor!
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2193— BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MOST POPULAR TV SHOW IN THE WORLD?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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2209This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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2215Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we are inviting a large group of people from all over the world. Sovereignty Club Congress is a congress that brings together a large number of people from a common vision and interests. At Sovereignty Club Congress we believe that it is more important to give true representation and power to the grassroots that we have at other world governments. At Sovereignty Club Congress people are more likely to have a greater say in the policies and decisions that have an impact on them. Sovereignty Club Congress is a grassroots event and is open to representatives, company executives, students, faculty, the press, and anyone else who cares to be part of the day-long process.=====================
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22179:30 am: Welcome everyone! If you haven't heard about it, Sovereignty Club is a non-partisan think tank that helps the world's most innovative and effective people understand how their world can and should work together. Here at Sovereignty Club we are constantly impressed by the speed and efficiency with which the world moves so quickly that we often forget how to keep up. We recently won the International Entrepreneur of the Year award, and we've even had some pretty impressive applications. Here at Sovereignty Club we are constantly impressed by the speed and efficiency with which the world moves quickly that the world forget how to keep up. We recently won the International Entrepreneur of the Year award, and we've even had some pretty impressive applications. Here at Sovereignty Club we have some pretty new things happening! . New Gods to Gods , 3 books starting In the tradition of Ball, Butler, and Mentor , or more colloquially referred to as G.D.H.H.D.s, here are a few more innovations we are giving away this year. Please note that your victory speech does not have to be a quote from Mark Twain , any Alaskan, American, or otherwise can enter.
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2219, 3 books starting In the tradition of, or , or more colloquially referred to as, here are a few more innovations we are giving away this year. Please note that your victory speech does not have to be a quote from Mark Twain , any Alaskan, American, or otherwise can enter.
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2229Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we will be holding it in Washington, DC on February 14-15, 2017.
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2232The Congress is open to people in all walks of life, businesses, governments, NGOs, think tanks, religious orders, academic institutions, labor unions, academic research institutes, national legislatures, citizen associations, professional associations, academic societies, academic research institutes, multinational corporations, national governments, academic research foundations, international organizations, academic research nongovernmental organizations, academic research think tanks, academic research accreditations, academic research accreditation commissions, academic research research grants, academic research research fellowships, academic research research teaching loads, academic research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research research to discuss policy issues and to network with like minded people.
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2238IT'S A NEW YEAR, BABY! Come join us at the Royal Adelaide Hospital for a brand new discussion on the state of the world and what we can do about it! We'll be discussing this stuff internally at Sovereignty Club, so bring your laptop with you. We'll start with an introduction from the Chair, and then we can discuss the WG35 document series or whatever suits us best.
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2244As we approach the year 2140, the human race has advanced beyond the technological limits of the pre-singularity. New forms of life have been discovered, and existing ones are being introduced at an unprecedented rate. As a result, the environment is rapidly becoming more and more complex. As a result, the general population exhibits significant psychological changes. As a result, the environment is rapidly becoming more and more complex. As a result, the environment is rapidly becoming more and more complex. As a result, the population increases, wildlife declines, crops fail, natural resources are depleted, species find new home locations are less optimal, and so on and so on.
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2247This rapidly-evolving world presents a number of challenges for the human race. The first and perhaps most obvious of these is the ever-present threat of runaway technological progress.
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2249This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss the recent report from the Inter-American Development Bank on the future of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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2255Sovereignty Club is proud to present our third annual Sovereignty Club Congress! This year we will be holding it in Washington, DC on February 14-15, 2017.
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2258The Congress is open to people in all walks of life, businesses, governments, NGOs, think tanks, religious orders, academic institutions, labor unions, academic research institutes, national legislatures, citizen associations, professional associations, academic societies, academic research councils, academic research foundations, academic research organizations, academic research institutes, academic research parks, and most other places where there are people gathering to have a conversation.
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2261It is always a pleasure to meet people at Sovereignty Club, and we look forward to discussing current issues with you!
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2264Yours truly,
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2267Eduardo
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2271Sovereignty Club is pleased to announce that it has been nominated for a Congressional Gold Medal at the Sovereignty Club Congresses (2016 and 2017). The Congress is a national organization of people who care about the promotion of individual sovereignty and a healthy environment of free association. It was founded in 1891 by William Lloyd Garrison and is dedicated to promoting individual liberty through voluntary association through regular meetings in Austin, Texas. The Congress was founded on the principle that people are people and that cooperation is the better part of valor. Its publications, conference proceedings, and fund- raising campaigns have been supported by a membership contribution of as little as $1 per year, making it one of, if not the, most financially independent of national organizations. Sovereignty Club is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Sovereignty Club Congresses take place every two years in Austin, Texas, in August and September. For more information, please visit our website at www.sovereigntyclub.org.
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2274A special thanks to Eduardo for sending this email:
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2277I am so excited to hear that you guys have been nominated for a Congressional Gold Medal at the Sovereignty Club Congresses. I have been a member of the Congress for about a year now and have never heard of you guys. I heard about you guys through a friend and he pointed me to your website. I have been a member of the Congress for about a year and a half now and have never heard of you guys. I heard about you
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2283This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. I've written before on the futility of trying to regulate the behavior of automated systems that learn from their mistakes. In this article I want to talk about something entirely different: artificial stupidity in sovereign states.
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2285I was intrigued to read that the following is true:
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2287– As of 2011, there were about 52,000 sovereign states.
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2289– The average IQ of a sovereign state was 105
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2291– In the United States it would be listed #62 on our list of 100 most intelligent countries
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2293– According to the book Smart Declarations by Alexander Cheung and Stephan Lewandowsky, it is possible to predict with 95% accuracy whether or not a country will have a single sovereign post-communist era.
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2295A few thoughts about these numbers.
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2297First of all, we are talking about years and decades ago. The United States joined the convention in 2015 and is not on the list. Second, in our current technological era, IQ is only one metric that can be taken into account when making a strategic decision about a country.
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2299The following chart shows the S&P 500 average 20 year historical performance against three other macro indicators:
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2301The average historical performance of all the tested nations is ranked from one to least dominant to highest dominant. It does not tell us anything about world smarts.
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23074) Getting There
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2309The location of a country is not that important. The main thing is that it is possible to get there (or at least experience being spied on).
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2311There are a couple of things that can give away a spy mission:
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2313Low altitude ballooning – I was shocked to discover that there was such a thing as low flying balloon rides.
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2316B) The NSA spied on the EU delegation to Moscow in 2015.
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2318C) Or at least the US embassy declined to comment in public.
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2320D) Or maybe they did and Or maybe they didn't. Who knows.
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2322E) Or you could be a spy. I am a spy.
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23242) Explaining the BreakIn
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2327This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will discuss:
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2329How artificial intelligence is already having an impact on everything from financial markets and healthcare to politics and culture.
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2331Why, at a time when humans are facing greater threats from natural disasters and climate change, we seem to be embracing and even encouraging technological solutions to more complex problems.
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2333What it says about the way that humans are changing the natural world that we seem to be more concerned with feeding the hungry than sharing the Earth with intelligent beings.
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2335How, in this increasingly interconnected and interconnecteding world, ignorance and stupidity are becoming more and more valued as assets.
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2337What it says about how the benefits of artificial intelligence are being ignored by governments and business leaders who should be most alarmed by its implications.
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2339Confronting the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
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2341One of the most talked about topics in the artificial intelligence community this year has been with us every bit as much as Brexit was discussed a year ago, geopolitics is back in the news with a vengeance, and even more so, is the state of the world economy.
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2343The hottest topic of conversation in the startup world is the state of the art in 20 years or less, and the hottest topic in the world economy is down to the minute details right now.
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2345As the world economy heats up and new players join the game, the game heats up and the game heats up, and the winners and the losers are becoming increasingly apparent.
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2347With that being said, I believe that this most recent panoply of developments will serve as a good starting point for those of you who are new to the world of economic development and global development.
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2349I. THE NEW ENVIRONMENTS
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2351II. THE WORLD ECONOMY HEATS UP
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2353III. THE NEW ENVIRONMENTS
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2355The emerging economies of the world have always been interested in the United States, and they have always been interested and willing to benefit from the growing economic ties between the United States and the developing economies.
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2357But the benefits have started to outweigh the costs, and the relationship with the United States has become increasingly adversarial over the past decade or so.
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2359The nature of Chinese power has grown more assertive over the past several decades, and Beijing has grown increasingly suspicious of the willingness of its growing number of sustainably-run and economically independent local governments to conform to the wishes of the national leadership.
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2361As a result, over the past
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2367The great master of the universe said...
2368"Whoever obeys me is like a dog that has its master"
2369-Wang Wei-an (1884-1970)
2370The Chinese philosopher Wang Wei-an (1884-1970) said this very thing:
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2372"Any one of us, after many lifetimes of service to our country, even after all the education we received, after spending our whole lives in the West and having lived and studied and worked and died here, is still a foreigner in his own land.
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2374Anyone of us still living in his country, who does not feel at home here, is a threat to our way of life.
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2376Anyone of us still living in our own country, who behaves as if we do not exist, undermines the very foundations of our society.
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2378Any one of us who does not adhere to the modern ways of the world is like a dog that has gone missing after eating its master's flesh."
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2380That quote is from Chapter 12 of The Open Society and Its Neighbours (1962), and is considered by some to be the beginning of social Darwinism. I would argue that it was more like Chapter 7. But the basic point stands: anyone of us still living in our own countries that does not live up to our own HIGHES standards is like a DAMN DIVIDE US OR WE WILL TAKE AWAY EVERYONE England! or Switzerland! mentality out the window.
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2382Last week I attended a great workshop on artificial intelligence at the Hoover Institution. It was an extremely informative look at what is going on and how we could do better. We learned that for every 2000 humans, only 6000 are contributing actively to society. This is terrible, because it means that each and every year we expropriate 2000 farmers and 1000 scientists for using too much AI power, and that equals 200 new countries.
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2384Now, there are always going to be exceptions to every rule, and there are going to be people in every household with unfair advantage rules, and there are going to be unfair advantage dynamics in the food system, and there are going to be other socio-economic forces at play that we just don't have the data on. But these are the kinds of simple-minded considerations that shed some light on the bigger picture. And while we're at it, what about the chess game analogy? Well, it's true that as humans get richer
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2386This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also talk about a new technology: Blackhat. I mean, look at all these devices and cameras that are being trialed around the world. They are amazing. But what is even more amazing is that they are happening all around us. We are witnessing the effects of artificial stupidity on the world stage. It is happening now, and it is going to affect us all. While there are many factors that could contribute to artificial stupidity, one of the main ones is the globalization agenda of the global elite. According to the article: The globalization agenda of the international community (defined by the UN in 1970-2 as the concerted and accelerated movement of economic, political, and cultural groups or assumptions within, the area of international economic and political domination and administration after establishment of a new world economic order) as it pertains to main issues and the world economy before, during, and after the second world war, constituted by , and is exerted today mainly in the area of world peace and socialist construction. The globalization of poverty has been going on for decades, and it is only recently that the consequences of it have become evident and became the main topic of discussion. Poverty has existed in many parts of the world, but poverty developed into a serious problem in many parts of the world during the second world war. During that war millions of people were killed because the governments of those parts of the world that did not join the communists (Germany, Japan, and a few other countries) were unwilling or unable to help those countries after the war in a decent way. That made the world a much more dangerous place to be a human being. Because when the government in the neighboring country is committing mass murder, you have much less incentive to help. That is what I am talking about with the new term in the "Blackhat" game. That is why it is so ironic that the man who coined the term this week is actually associated with it, because it looks like he could be the real mastermind behind the term. For those of you that don't know, Nick Bostrom is a developmental biologist at Trinity College in Dublin and is best known for writing The Happy Hippie blog. I talked to him at the Sovereignty Club about what it is like to be a leader of a small nation, and what the future of science and public policy in Ireland might hold. Get ready to learn a thing or two about the world. Michael? Pardon the language Greg uses. The point of this week
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2388This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the future of money.
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2436This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will discuss:
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2438-- How a Chinese company is trying to build an AI super company.
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2440-- Why the US is lagging behind.
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2442-- The implications of AI for jobs and the global order.
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2444-- The history of reason and blind optimism in the face of the most incredible odds.
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2446This episode is brought to you by Club Pluralism. It's an online community where people around the world can come together to make real, live and tweet, "We can! Put an end to all this ridiculous subsidies for the unsustainable, end all trade deals, and create an agricultural leftie movement and millions of Twitter Tweets!"
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2448And if you're feeling particularly inspired, I highly recommend Constellation Blue Moon Biscuit. It's a sweet, syrupy sweetened condensed milk variation of their regular thing, and it ONLY takes 30 seconds to make. It tastes exactly like real thing, and it BLACKENINGS like real thing. It is indeed as it says. (And here are some pictures to prove it).
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2495This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will learn about the ways in which governments, corporations, and other actors within a globalized world can use technological advances for the good of all. In this world in which we live, where do we put the proverbial elephant?
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2497(Sovereignty Club is modeled after the Greco-Roman pantheon, but with a twist: each of the nine fixed elements (i.e., natural resources, energy, human capital, information, media, and science) has its own sovereign and administrative powers, whereas the animals (manipulations of the elements) are entirely subordinate to the gods.)
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2501It was April 5, 1914, and the great German army known as the Wehrmacht had just entered the battle of the Western Front. On the western bank of the Rhine, in the valley of the Elbe, lay the vast Meuse-Dix-Andes, the "blank slashets of the worlds": the German concentration camp system.
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2503Over the next decade, this system – numbering over a million inmates at various stages of concentration, from pretenders to serious contenders, and including minorities like the Habsburgs and even the Papal States – would play a key role in the Second World War.
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2505While the concentration camps established by the Wehrmacht were not indiscriminate genocidals, they were certainly not humane. As the legendary German general Karl Beck claims, "Most of the inmates of Sachsenhausen were destined for labor camps because they refused to fight."
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2507Most of the inmates of Sachsenhausen were destined for labor camps because they refused to fight. -Karl Beck
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2509And while it is true that many of the inmates of Sachsenhausen were solely destined for work camps – e.g., for the infamous shortcut (or, more accurately, death march) from crematoria 1 to 2 within the first week or two of arrival, the fate of the vast majority of inmates was anything but clear cut, and they are still disproportionately represented among the death sentences are to be handed down in the West African–German–Swiss–Italian–Swedish–Swedish–French and so on death camps.
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2511And while there is good reason to believe that the many tragic deaths at Buchenwald were the direct result of the fact that prior to the war most of the inmates had been sent to Buchenwald, and because of the
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2513This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. My name is Jean-Francois Boivin and I am the President of Sovereignty Club.
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2515Joining us tonight is Jean-Luc Barbet, Professor of Economics at the Paris Business School, and the author of "The Second Machine Age: Will the Robots Take Over? Why We Can control Machines but not Governments." Jean-Luc is also the host of the new technological podcast, entitled "Net Neutrality", where topics range from the merits and pitfalls of the current debate to possible new approaches.
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2517Please join us this Wednesday at 6pm in Sovereignty Lounge BB8 BBB B101 for a great conversation about artificial intelligence and societal consequences of its adoption.
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2542Brief summary of discussion:
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25451) We have a strategic interest in preventing the emergence of some types of societies where humans take over biological ones. For example, we think that the model of collectivism developed by the Soviet Union between Lenin and Stalin was a major factor leading to the catastrophic failure of the USSR. We also think that the protectionism advocated by Donald Trump is a major threat to the global economic order.
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25472) Our view is that the main causes of the failure of large-scale historical movements like the Communist Parties and other political movements are two-fold: (1) the advanced technical mastery of the movement's leaders (usually about as good as their thundersticks); and (2) the disorganization, disorganization, of the massive movement (often aided by outside influences, such as nuclear weapons).
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25493) Our main hope is that our suggestions for the future direction of the modern day Communist Parties can be of some use to the movement.
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25514) Our main hope is also that our suggestions for the improved organization of the movements can also be of some use.
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2553We would also be happy to elaborate on our ideas in detail.
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2558In the early 1990s, a young American futurist in London named Maarten Steenbo
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2560This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will hear from Ryan Holiday, Global Policy Analyst, Microsoft and Professor of Economics, Loyola Marymount University.
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2562This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will hear from Ryan Holiday, Global Policy Analyst, Microsoft and Professor of Economics, Loyola Marymount University.
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256428 July 2018 Oligarchs, oligarchs, and more oligarchs, more oligarchs, and more. This week on Sovereignty Club we will be discussing the case of a Ukrainian oligarch, Rinat Akhmetshin, who is wanted in the US on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. We will hear from Renato Malavisi, Senior Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of The Ukrainian Spring: How Russia's Dissidents are Invading the Euro-Atlantic Alliance, SOURCE: link
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2566This week on Sovereignty Club we will be discussing the case of a Ukrainian oligarch, Rinat Akhmetshin, who is wanted in the US on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. We will hear from Renato Malavisi, Senior Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of andand and and and and and and and and ...
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256821 July 2018 How authoritarian are China's leaders? This week on Sovereignty Club we will be discussing a study on the role of political leaders in shaping the development of the economy of one of China's provinces. We will be joined by Zhu Bijie, Senior Scholar, Hong Kong School of Economics and former Associate Director of the Central Committee Studies Program at Fudan University, and by Zhang Danyuan, a professor at Fudan University's School of Public Health.
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2570This week on Sovereignty Club we will be discussing a study on the role of political leaders in shaping the development of the economy of one of China's provinces. We will be joined by Zhu Bijie, Senior Scholar, Hong Kong School of Economics and former Associate Director of the Central Committee Studies Program at Fudan University, and by by Zhang Danyuan, a professor at Fudan University's School of Public Health.
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257230 June 2018 How is artificial intelligence and robotics disrupting work and what implications for society and governance? This week on Sovereignty Club we will be discussing a working paper on the topic and discussing it with Yanlong Yang, Senior Fellow, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and Em
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2574This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will also discuss what this means for global governance, specifically for the UN, where the interests of all its members seem to be converging towards a common foreign policy goal.
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2580Welcome back to another episode of Sovereignty Club! Today we are going to talk about artificial intelligence. We all know that machines are getting smarter all the time, but what exactly is artificial intelligence? Well, it's simply the scientific study of machines, and it goes all the way back to the Greeks.
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2583The ancient Greeks were fascinated by the machines that they called agamemnon, because they fought by the sides of the road carrying plunder. In a play on the old adage "all men are mortal" the philosopher Socrates said that humans were only passing fates, destined to play a limited role in the natural order. It was inevitable that we too would pass on our mortal short shrift, and that humans would play our part. Humans would do terrible things, and we would all get on deplorable things. This is what happens in a system of tyranny, where the rule of law is subverted by mob rule and hatred of the untouchable. It was during this time that agamemnon was given the epithet "cyborg" and the first fully artificial intelligences were born.
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2586Now, I know what you're thinking. Who would have thought that 20 centuries of progress would be used up in pushing technological limits, like so many other technological issues? Well, you're absolutely right. In the words of Alan Kay, CEO of Deep Blue 2, "Technological progress is like smoking: you can keep smoking it for as long as you want, but once you end you won't be able to catch it again." 2 And I say once you keep pushing the boundaries, the limits are being pushed beyond imagining. In 1965, Alan Turing, the man behind the immense and profoundly unknown field of artificial intelligence wrote thisplausibly:In other words, it all seems so obvious, right? Well, not really. As Alan Kay posits:In other words, pushing the boundaries can be like smoking: you can always try new things, new ways of doing the same old thing. But once you start pushing the boundaries, the behavior seems to grow increasingly bizarre and out of step with the underlying assumptions underlying the design. And that is exactly what is happening now, as AI is increasingly integrated into our daily lives, and it becomes increasingly difficult
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2589This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.
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2591I have been thinking a lot about all of these topics and I hope you will join me this Thursday at 6pm at Sovereignty Lounge in BBB B101 as we discuss the future of governance.
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2593See you there,
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2595Eduardo
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2599It's been almost two years since the first article of the Sovereignty Club article ran. Back then, I was still a new member, just entering my second year of membership. I remember being skeptical at first. After all, it was only a few hundred words detailing the emerging technology of artificial intelligence that appeared in the first article of the Sovereignty club. Surely, most of my fellow newbies were used to hearing all about all the amazing things the world will be able « do » when everybody else does “ ok? After all, I was told that most of my fellow newbies were used to hearing all about all of the awesome things the world would be able to do when it comes to joining castes and tribes and generally ruining everything when it comes to creating the best possible world.
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2601I was wrong. After reading the first few articles of the club, articles that have a very high conversion rate, almost any interesting story to tell and a very small online following, articles and articles that go viral, the first thing that comes to my mind is “what is the big deal about artificial intelligence?” And then “oh, by the way, yesterday I visited some remote island off the coast of Singapore and saw for myself just how AI can be used 5 generations in the making to empowerment society 1, and everything to come 1, and everything is only half way done!” And then “all this social science BS is only the tip of the iceberg”, when the article that caught my eye explained how AI was able to create entire new industries and fundamentally alter the face of the universe in just 10 short years comes online.
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2603However, even as articles and articles roll out and half a century passes, the original skepticism about artificial intelligence builds. Throughout history, skeptics have often pointed out that the available information is often contradictory to what we had been led to believe. For example, skepticism also builds when science and religion come into conflict, when religious teachings and scientific methods clash, or when the available scientific data points conflict. Today, I am talking about a slightly different phenomenon.
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2605For decades, investors and financial analysts have been warning about the risks
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2607This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will look at how AI can be used by the rich to do the working of the poor, and we will explore how these developments will affect the natural world.
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2613Shall we have a word about the newest cancellation in world commerce? It is more commonly referred to as the nanotechnology elbow, and it of course…
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2616…created by the world over with its own unique set of complications and difficulties. It is the world that, in 1874, witnessed the fateful day when a group of Chinese traders, intent on exploiting the vast resources at their doorstep, failed to secure the necessary permissions from the Chinese government.
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2619It is this pivotal moment in world history, when the Chinese leadership failed to take decisive, decisive action that ultimately cost China's survival the blessing of at least one Pacific power, that has caused the world to bear the name of the nanotechnology elbow.
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2622It is by this singular historical anomaly, that the world of today night can be so readily compared to its forebears. Both nations were emerging industrial powers, plagued by internal instability and plagued by savagery towards the periphery of the natural order. Both were embroiled in major conflicts that claimed the lives of scores of their citizens and significantly damaged the physical fabric of the natural order.
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2625Yet, despite their major structural differences, both nations possessed one thing that stood out to the world markers that day: A resolute opposition to the changeling. A defiant, uncompromising, unwavering opposition to the scourge that was open and cheap movement of mass transitory dan dan's (fake Chinese currency) all throughout the country. A scourge that the never ending supply ppl as the foolhardy enough to take the foolhardy path ever since independence day of one can happily end up becoming victims of. A scourge that the unstoppable march of technological change has yet to unravel.
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2628In other words, like a stubbornly indian people that refused to accept the greenery of the new world as equal to that of the old, or like a swedish militaristic nation that refused to accept the west as a meaningful partner, or like a Burmese bureaucratic monolith that refused to accept the ipod as a form of kingpin technology, or like the ipod that was the catalyst that turned the ipod from a flop into a smash hit cultural phenomenon, or like the rise and fall of the soviet empire or the downfall of the soviets
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2630This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will then go back to our classes to hear about what happened.
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2649Cheers
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2655This week at the Sovereignty Club we have an AI summit coming up on Tuesday, January 15 at 5pm in Sovereignty Lounge BB8 (the meeting on planet earth starts on different because of an 4:00 pm start) . At the summit we should discuss the state of artificial intelligence and, of course, poke fun at anyone who doesn't know shit. Post is closed for discussion.
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2661There's a catch to all good ruses, isn't there? For as benign as they seem, the tag "robocall scam" will creep into the collective consciousness faster than a cobra. And as we speak, a web app called in attempts to make millions by scamming people into paying it thousands of dollars for their unused unused unused minutes turns out to be a crock. But it's worse... it was all a complete hoax, and if enough people voice their outrage the bankroll of scam artists dry up for good. The result? A homesick family member who is now unable to make or break their 20 year lease, and a trip down memory lane that cost a couple of dozen bucks. And that's before we even factor in the interest and rental expense tax toenails that they paid in order to avoid the ridiculous renter's agreement provisions. Sounds like a reasonable enough deal doesn't it, sir? Well, it isn't. The 'biz is on fixed line & data charges being the new competitive edge in 2017 and it's gonna be for the better. Just look at how quickly they transformed voice over IP (TOR) into the de rigueur consumer feature. For those keeping score at home, that's like changing the legal drinking age from+/-22 to+/-18.
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2669This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. We will hear from Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at Tufts University who has been studying this topic for over a decade. We will also hear from Jean-Baptiste Happé, a leading expert on artificial stupidity and author of the best selling book Natural Stupidity: Why We Are Doomed, and How to Get Along Better With OurDataCollectingItself! We will conclude with a brief bow to Carl Sagan, and hope to see you at the club!
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2677CBA 2009: The World Bank 2013: UN Headquarters
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2679Citizens for Bureau Systems is calling it a day: abandoning the Bureau system will become a core value of Sovereignty Club's mission. We call it it, we believe it, and the vote was unanimous! Thank you to everyone who participated in the last meetings, it is always a pleasure meeting new people!
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2681Our proposal is to frame the change from the Bureau to a Platform, which will allow citizens to have input into the design of new systems. Platforms could be any type of software or services, and could be developed and offered by organizations within the United States, or internationally.
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2683The functions and structure of a Platform would be determined by the citizens of the, United Nations, and outlined annually on that foundation.
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2685The voting public for the United Nations could theoretically include anyone, including billionaires like Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, but the objective of the Program is not to empower citizens to influence United Nations programs, but to facilitate citizen involvement in the development of United Nations programs through periodic review and public comment.
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2687The process for adopting new programs for the Program would be similar to that for international agreements: at the Department of State, a new Department of International Trade would be created, with provisions and functions corresponding to the new Department.
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2701I was walking my dog yesterday when something big happened. Something tall and thin and sharp and long and strong and green and sharp and big and red and multicolored and green and yellow and greenish and red and silver and bronze and yellow and gold and yellow and blue and yellowish and golden and orange and red and yellow and gold and gold and gold and gold and...
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2710It's been a long, long time coming. Back in April of 2013, the idea of holding a Sovereignty Club event in my backyard was almost laughable. But then something amazing happened. The likes of Nick Land and Jesse Thornphant-Giles set up shop and have been doing Sovereignty Club events ever since, mostly just me and them.
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2713So, it's only fitting that this Thursday at 6pm on Sovereignty Lounge BBB B101 we will all meet for the last of what will be a regular Sovereignty Club event.
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2722This week's topic is brought to you by the boys at The Synthesizer Syndicate, Jesse Thornphant and Nick Land, and I've been meaning to asking them to bring the theme this week ever since I heard about it from Dani. It should be interesting.
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2728So, it's finally happened. 5 years after the events of my all time favourite movie, Man of Steel , and with Man of Steel 2 just released in Australia and New Zealand, I feel compelled to discuss Man of Steel 2 . Man of Steel 2 is a movie that I found to be surprisingly well done, and it is a movie that I found to be surprisingly well done, and it has affected my opinion of a great deal.
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2731The story of Man of Steel 2 begins with a guy named Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) and a girl named Kara Zor-El (Melora Coates). A year after Superman's New Krypton incident left large parts of the American populace missing for months, thousands of kilometers, and with inflatable boats, Clark and Kara return to Earth with the sole purpose of finding out what happened. They get lost
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2734This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I've been meaning to do this for a while, and finally got around to it.  I hope you all enjoy!
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2738Today we are going to discuss something that seems obvious to all of us: The World Is Getting Closer To World War 3. And we all just don't want to think about it any differently.
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2740This is what Ive written before:
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2742The most salient feature of the signs is that they are followed by specific signs (e.g. +6 and 0.6 ). This is consistent with a type I type system, which has simple types and simple-toned semantics. A related feature is that the most prominent development over the past 200 years or so is the addition of-if functions to language ontologies, which allow us to group related terms into if-statements and which, when written recursively on rich text databases like DB2s, give rise to very detailed and generalised semantic programs (see for example van der Kolk & van der Kolk, 2016 for a review).
2743
2744This is all very interesting stuff, and I recommend a pretty thorough look at the official article at SG talks, but today we'll be talking about a little-known article in type theory history that deserves a mention:
2745
2746It says something about the zeitgeist right now that the most recent language to get its own article is type theory. pluto.
2747
2748→
2749
2750The academic year is officially over, but the ideas and skills that we learned and the challenges we faced will never go away.
2751
2752That is because, for all the progress and progress we made, the world as we know it, the 21st century, will always be much, much, greater than our grasp. Because evolution is real, because climate change is real, because is actually, the government entity that we are, we have another entity to fear: the undergrads.
2753
2754And it is here, this week, at sovereignty club, that we will talk about something that has been rather quiet for a while: Undergrads.
2755
2756It has been a way for students to express their opinions and opinions to be heard since before the academic year began. It has been a topic of conversation at recent events likeemersonessayforum and centered around UB Cantos No 1 & 2, where members were encouraged to post Undergraduate-Likeers 1 & 2 in the hopes of inspiring younger students to pursue a future in public service.
2757
2758However, the opinion portion of this banner will be held until the founding members of the Facebook campus organization are in their early twenties and firmly establish their political leanings.
2759
2760As the founders of a political organization, we expect our political hangers-on to to make the decisions and execute the campaigns. Since more thanNS members are college students at Facebook campus, in amongst the from next Tuesday's Cantos discussion: WE THE PEOPLE.
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2762This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  As we know, globalization is bad for the US but good for the world in the long run.  It allows countries to specialize and specialize to the benefit of all.  It allows for more flexible trade policies that allow countries to specialize in more areas than ever before.  It allows for more efficient trade and investment, which in turn leads to more jobs and better wages for everyone. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. In the past decade, globalization has created more jobs for foreigners than all the previous industrial revolutions put together.  In fact, since the end of World War II, it has created more jobs for foreigners than the last large-scale migrations of peoples, cultures, and populations.  So what happened?  One explanation is that globalization enables more freedom and flexibility than any other era in human history.  For example, as economist Thomas Sowell has written: The world of today is the most technologically advanced period in human history, in which man has ever lived. Today's men and women walk about in swarms and in armor and shoot each other from rooftops.  In the past, men and women fought over the earth and the women of the planet in war, and nothing more.  But this is over, and he to whom it is done, that is, the next world war, man makes all the inroads, and sweeps aside the old and the strong, the holdfast, and the powerful, and leads them by the hand into his garrisons.  He is in charge of humanity in the twenty-first century the like of which has not yet been dreamed.  And yet, despite the power of modern technology to make the naked might of any nation ever before the envy of his inferiors, America stands out as a persistent exception to the rule.  She has for so long defied all expectations, and shown so little respect for international law, that it is almost as if she were ordained from the beginning to preside supreme over humanity.  In fact, it is remarkable how little America has achieved that it should have to worry about being surpassed, and how little that is surpassed even by what she has.  She has done more than any other great nation to alter the face of the human race forevermore. She has invented the laboratory and the gun, and in so doing have redefined the limits of human achievement.  She has expropriated millions of small farmers from the wealthy landowners of the old world, and she has concentrated economic might in the military- economic might of one man, Theodore Roosevelt.  She has militarized the media and educated the public, and done with this scientific and economic might she has exerted the will to preserve life, liberty, and property (including the right to destroy it) for all as the seventh living God intended. And now she is coming for our jobs.  In an effort to dominate
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2764This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss the potential implications of artificial intelligence for national sovereignty and international politics.
2765
2766This week's topic:
2767
2768Natural Stupidity: The Case of China
2769
2770****
2771
2772In his book  The Grand Illusion  Feuerbach (1813-1879) describes a world in which:
2773
2774"The great powers of Europe and America have entered into a compact which binds the future of the world to that of the latter's own day. The present limits of European power are … to a certain extent a relic of the days of the Bourbons, and partly a product of the Renaissance. The United States, however, surpasses even at the height of the Louis XVen dynasty the might of that dynasty in population and gold supremacy. She now controls more than sixty million persons, more than the next twenty-five combined; she manufactures more articles in a year than the last twenty-five countries combined; and manufactures exceed imports by more than two and one-half times. The difference between the purchasing power of all the produce of the whole of Europe and that of twenty-five European countries averaged in the year 1812 was greater than that of the products of the last twenty-six combined. And this is without counting the articles which the United States exports, imports, and exports again; which pays no tariffs, and which receives foreign capital at lower than wheny she conducts it through her own tariff courts. And this is before we go to the numerous and important articles which she manufactures herself, purchases herself, and exports to other countries, which alone she contributes economically to the national income. And this is before we even enter upon her commercial transactions with other countries. The United States commerce with other countries stands at a ratio of about one-third to that with Europe of about one to one. It is this very enormous and very equalbalance which makes possible the commerce of the world, which, at the centre of the world, controls the destiny of the world, and which can be brought to nothing except by the effort of the controlling powers. It is this same underlying principle which makes it possible for the world to arm itself, but not to arm up, but which makes it impossible for the world as a whole to arm itself, except by the effort of the controlling powers. And yet it is this same underlying principle which, through the medium of international finance, has produced in the West such an unprecedented industrial and social expansion in recent centuries, and which is destined to produce ever more rapid and more rapid increases, rendering the existing extent of the world's human population virtually unmanageable. It is precisely because the underlying principle of international finance is so fundamentally opposed to the aspirations of the human spirit that it can alone produce the material for the industrial progress which is the inevitable result of industrialization is of immense historical importance. For the underlying principle of international finance is also so fundamentally opposed to the aspirations of the human spirit that it is precisely because the underlying principle
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2776This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I know this is a very long post but I think it is worth sharing.
2777
2778I have been following the unfolding story of China's rise to global leadership with great interest over the past year.  It all began with a trade dispute in the early 1980s when the former shipload of rocks (China = 3) acquirred an unfair edge in market share by building structures on the rocksanan(Taiwan = 2) coast and (hoping) getting a leg up from incurring the wrath of anglo kid farmers.
2779In 1986 a full fledged economic war broke out between China and the former sovereign nation of Taiwan and by the early nineties millions of Chinese tourists were visiting Taiwan annually.
2780In 1994 the old disputes with neighboors became a bit more amiable and in 1995 President Clinton visited Taipei to sign a sweeping free trade agreement between the two countries.
2781Fast forward to 2013 and we have the present day and we are still talking about it.  As we all know the Chinese government is by no means an amicable people but after watching my country allow a company to build a massive airfield in their soil to build a tank farm in retaliation for a territorial dispute they (the Dalai lamas) do not understand why the Chinese do not merely peacefully resolve the stand off but ENGAGE IN DEFEAT THROUGH RESILIENT ILL will be visiting fb in the not so distant future it will be interesting to observe what they say at the airfield.
2782Meanwhile the world burns.  As the saying goes "the brighter the bomb, the WORSE THE THREAT".  This week on the Sovereign Man podcast we are joined by Benjamin Friedman, the former special assistant to the secretary of defense for long-term thinking and operations and energy, to discuss the state of long-range strategic communication systems.  In this episode:
2783- What are the state-of-the-art long-range strategic communication systems?
2784- How effective have they been at deterring aggression?
2785- What factors might make long-range strategic communication systems more effective?
2786
2787
2788
2789
2790Brief summary follows video link.
2791
2792===
2793
2794It is hard to believe but the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was fought over a few Molotov cocktails.
2795
2796It is even harder to believe that the Cold War lasted half a world and that the shattering of the Berlin Wall brought with it a flood of new ideas and Cold War technologies.
2797
2798Today we are living in an age of unprecedented complexity, where competing information sources and geopolitical wrangling are only some of the effects of human action. What technologies will one day enable us to peer deep into the mind of a superintelligence and discover the plans it has for us, the actions we can take to stop them, and the means we can subdue and subdue them? What technologies will one day allow us to build surveillance
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2800This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I'll be speaking on the topic.  I hope to see you there.
2801
2802Sovereignty Club is no longer accepting new members.  If you are a member and think you ought to get rid of us, write [email protected]
2803Become a bigger member--ucpropensity (701)-854-7967
2804Facebook UnivProp
2805Twitter utopia
2806YouTube Why is the future so uncertain?  Because our present understanding of nature is completely at odds with what is known about the future.  This symposium is designed to provide a forum for engaging citizens and policy-makers from around the world to discuss and improve upon the state of knowledge of their respective countries in the area of geopolitics and international politics.
2807The theme for this year's meeting is "The End of History?"," and the inevitable questioners will include: 1) Christopher Booker, visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and author of The End of History Picking winners and takers after the world wars 2- and 4- 2) Thomas Walker, professor emeritus of history and international affairs, California Institute of Technology and author of The End of History of the 20th century and Beyond 2) Ilan Pappé, author of After Europe: How the Continent is Leaving the World Behind It Today and Will Be Leaving the World Behind It Behind It Tomorrow 3) Richard Florida, emeritus professor of history, Brown University and author of Leaving Europe behind: How demographic change is reshaping cooperation and cooperation is cooperation after the Common Era, Eurasia rebounding, and the former term of the Astronomical Union 4) Kenneth Waltz, professor emeritus of history, Brown University and author of Leaving the world behind: How globalization is reshaping international order making and breaking with the world as we know it 6 months, 1 day, 0 hours, 1 point)
2808The event will be livestreamed on C-Span  at: https://www.c-span.org/video/embed/2726799
2809We will also post the abstract and summary of the article on the Sovereignty blog at: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/49742351/The-EndofHistory-the-future-of-species-or-civilization-part-II.pdf
2810We look forward to seeing you there!
2811Eduardo and Dylan
2812Budapest, 12 - 1 - 1 - austin, 2017
2813A presentation on the future of humanity and the species (or the ecosystem) as we know it (2001-au) was presented at that conference by the distinguished academic Christopher Booker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Booker).
2814In his talk, which I have translated below, he describes several developments that indicate that we are currently living through the end of history as we know it (BBGK).
2815He starts by mentioning that Oxford philosopher and
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2817
2818
2819This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  It is a topic that has been gaining interest on the Internet for a while now, but I haven't heard anyone talk about it in-depth.  I am looking forward to hearing about it!
2820Sovereignty Club Sponsored Links Y Combinator:  Introducing Natural Luck: The Science and Practice of Playing the Game of Life  [  7 NOVEMBER 2014  (Event link in post)]
2821[ Disclaimer : This is an updated version of my article that appeared on 29 June 2014 .  The material has been condensed and augmented to be comprehensible by today's audience.
2822Please see the new article for the original content. ]
2823The term natural stooges refers to individuals who, for a variety of reasons, find it difficult to be the center of gravity of a group of people.  For example, it may be because you are tall and/or have good posture (a common enemy among the Persians), or because you speak a good foreign language (another common enemy) or you are born with an enviable position in society (a last-minute bonus).
2824Natural stooges also may be the result of inherited traits or environmental factors.  For instance, some people are born with a stronger tendency to be good naturalists (than do others) than are others (Dietary Guidelines Chapter 7, Section 503.2).
2825Natural stooges can be physical in form of size or build, mental in the shape of character, genetic in the disposition to be a stickler for convention, religious in the need to be right, ethnic in being Arab, nationalistic in being proud, nationalistic in minding one's territory, or sexual in being attracted by displays of physical might.
2826Natural stooges can be physical in form of size or build, mental in the shape of character, genetic in the disposition to be a stickler for convention, religious in the need to be right, ethnic in the need to be attracted by the color red, and nationalistic in desire to be loved.
2827Other physical features that a person shares with her fellows can be quite important.  For instance, a large proportion of the variance in the growth rate of a commodity such as human height is explained by the fact that the individual choices of the individuals grouping into that solitary aggregation have a greater explanatory power than those of the group as a whole.
2828Physical in form of body, natural in constitution, national in origin: these are the markers by which nations are distinguished.  But even these are but temporary distinctions.
2829History of nations A truly great nation never changes its features a moment.
2830The greatest nations have remained the greatest nations for ever.
2831More
2832Page 81 - There is only one thing you will never understand about history, and that is yourself. ‎ Appears in 9 books from History of mankind : 1 august 2017 - History of mankind : 3 sepiet 2017 - History
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2834This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss some of the interesting and interesting-sounding names that have come to be associated with this new discipline (like artificial general intelligence, or AGI).  We will also talk about some of the less interesting and interesting-sounding names that have come to be associated with this new discipline (like e-sociology, or social and behavioral natural science).  We will also talk about some of the less interesting and interesting names that have come to be associated with this new discipline (like AI, deep learning, deep learning, AI, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, deep learning, and so on.
2835Dylan Matthews is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.  He researches the use of machine learning in natural language processing and how it can be applied to natural language understanding.  His research interests are primarily in natural language understanding, but he also studies machine learning in natural language processing, especially in the areas of reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning over neural networks and classification by sentimentality.  You can find more of his work at   http://www.thespecie.co.uk/artists/dylan-matthews/
2836Thanks so much for joining us this week.  My name is Ken and I am a long-time member of the  Sovereignty Club family.  I would like to start by saying how much I appreciate your time and for listening to the presentation.  I also want to thank Dylan for allowing me to use his presentation.
2837
2838I would also like to talk about the importance of self governance in a free and open society.  It is interesting to read that the United States was founded on a document that was originally created to govern tribes.  It read:
2839
2840Be it ordained citizens of the Sovereign Empire, by the authority vested in me by the writers and keepers of the original document on the internal politics of takfiri wali abu nashiba :
2841
2842Be it known that the sovereign government of takfiri wali abu tahrir in san ذي نبه الله is available to provide a national in- service training course in the legal precepts of takfiri wali abu tahrir in san ذي نبه الله in obligation to a class on politics and government this week, Wednesday and for the next week also marking different parts of san ذ
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2844This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I'm not sure if this is a good idea to talk about in a regular meeting, or a bad one.  Either way, I'm sure we can all learn something from one of the papers this week.
2845
2846Cheers
2847 Eran
2848 
2849
2850===
2851IT'S A THING THAT HAS BEEN HELD IN THE BACK OF PEOPLE'S THINKTRONS FOR AS LONG AS THERE HAVE BEEN.
2852
2853In the year 2144, humanity has colonized another world, and discover resources. These resources include metal, oil, and food.
2854
2855Then, out of the blue, a massive, bat-shit-huge, cosmic horror strike hits, and kills everything that was not directly hit, leaving behind a mountain of debris.
2856
2857The majority of this material is billions of years old, and contains traces of life that scientists have been able to interpret for the past century.
2858
2859However, there is still much that we do not know, including how the debris came to be concentrated in such a specific location, and what caused it.
2860
2861Since then, thousands of scientists and engineers have worked on developing technologies capable of extracting the precious metal, or even extracting the bare essentials such as the remaining oil.
2862
2863The technology is relatively simple: take the raw material, analyze it, and design a small amount detector to process the data into a substance that can then be isolated and further processed.
2864
2865While this is an exciting new frontier for humanity, it misses an even more important but much understudied field:
2866
2867Corporatism™.
2868
2869Coming soon: papers, seminars, and…
2870
2871THIS IS WHERE EVERYONE ELSE IS A LOSER.
2872
2873- By contrast, the Europeans of the late medieval and early modern periods were the first to seriously consider and address the long-term implications of natural disasters.
2874
2875In Europe, such concerns were common. In the late 12th and early 13th centuries, for example, the monk and writer Thomas de Liguoriature (known for his chroniclers of the history of the saints) wrote a detailed defense of natural disasters (which he characterizes as "not so great after all") at a time-honored European forum.
2876
2877Thomas also popularized the phrase, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," which became a national trait.
2878
2879In continental Europe, similar sentiments were more often expressed in the philosophical vein. In Switzerland, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (better-known today for his work on celestial mechanics) wrote a classic on the natural limits of human knowledge (which remains the basis for much modern natural science) in the mid-fifteenth century.
2880
2881In Italy, Giordano Bruno (better known for his philosophical oeuvre) wrote a best-selling refutation of Aristotle's The Metaphysics of Morals (which he characterized as a "dross
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2883This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I will be talking about China, but the general principles apply.
2884
2885===
2886
2887In the year 2116, a group of human explorers, scientists, and settlers set out on a new continent.  They named it:
2888
2889Sovereignty Earth
2890
2891On this day in 1824, the British Empire (now the United States of America) broke away from the Ottoman Empire.  The following year, the new nation-state of Singapore was born.
2892
2893Since then, all of humanity has been playing a game of chicken with other players for leadership of Earth.
2894
2895Who Will Take Over In 2026?
2896
2897In 2026, when the human population is projected to be 12 billion strong and when the world economy is predicted to be running at about 6% annual growth, it may be prudent to examine the question, who will be the next leader of the human race?
2898
2899There are a number of possibilities.  First, in June 2017, it will be worth about to more than $1,000/kilo-17n (about Pounds 8.5 Million to Pounds 100 Million).  That is more than 10 times the annual income of the bottom 150 million people on the planet.  That is crazy.  Some of the world's poorest people will be unable to support that much food.  And even if they could, there will be so much water in the oceans that even a modest transfer of wealth could not reverse the trend towards ocean concentration over time.  Even a slight increase in tumbling sea level could cause the death of cities all around the world in less than a generation.  Even a 0.1cm rise in tide would cause flooding in parts of the world such as Bangladesh and Nigeria.  Even a 1cm rise would cause flooding in parts of the world such as Bangkok and Jakarta.  Even a 1.1m year-old baby would be dead in minutes.  Even a 1.1m year old baby would be dead in minutes. Even a slight increase in tide would cause flooding in parts of the world such as Bangkok and Jakarta. Even a slight increase in tide would cause flooding in parts of the world such as Bangkok and Jakarta. Even a slight increase in tide would cause flooding in parts of the world such as Bangkok and Jakarta. Why Think Twice?
2900
2901Well, there are a number of things to think about.  First, the planet is only 6,072,622,647,607,296 years old.  Second, humans came into being on July 4, 2012.  Third, humans have been messing with climate change continuously since before the fossil record was explored in the 1670s. Fourth, even though the fossil record is only 60626 years old, scientists are predicting that global warming will occur approximately 4 times faster than natural variability. Fifth, even though the fossil record
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2903This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I have been meaning to write about this for a while, and can finally say that it is finally happening.  We will be meeting at 5PM in the Club Lounge to begin the discussion.  If you are unable to make it this week, at the September meeting in San Francisco in a year when the registration is open until 5 on 9, there will be an early bird special pricing system in place.  That is a selling point.
2904Sovereignty Club, Board of Directors:
2905Curtis (chair), Kate (assistant), Sam (fellow), David
2906Eduardo:  guru
2907Eduardo:
2908Eduardo:
2909Eduardo:
2910Eduardo:
2911Eduardo:
2912Eduardo:
2913Eduardo:
2914Eduardo:
2915Dylan:
2916Ivan: Sovereignty Club, I love you, but I can no longer support your policy of actively promoting idiocy and sh*t tests the patience of anyone who doesn't subscribe to it.  In a world where idiocy is the new orthodoxy, where the accepted wisdom on urban planning is that it is a terrible idea because it is a terrible idea, where the idea of putting a GPS tracking device in every vibrator found out to be human in Africa was so repellent to the indigenous people of the Serengeti that they urinated down the grooves of their fingers every summer in front of cameras, where the idea of developing an intelligent vending machine that will tell the difference between an apple and a pear by thinking about buying and selling 20,000 people on e-currency every 10 seconds and listening to 10,000 people in a Stockholm hospital ward talking about Beethoven for the first time since 1960 is beyond the pale.  And where is the club putting forth an annual initiative to put a GPS tracking device in every vibrator found in the wild?  No wonder they call it "ecology". I love the club !  I love the club for putting forth an annual initiative to promote idiocy.  I love the club for promoting idiocy.  I love the club for promoting idiocy.
2917Eduardo:  Sovereignty Club, thank you for allowing me to contribute to your annual idiocy promotion campaign.  You are indeed one of the few institutions in the world that actually dares to promote idiocy.  In fact, I would go as far as to characterize your mission statement as unique among institutions of its kind.  I call it "ecology".  We advocate the following points of emphasis for our coming year (emphasis ours): 1) End of species extinctions. 2) Extinction of suffering. 3) Reduction of the environmental impact of major activities by 50%. 4) Reduction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions by at least 95%. 5) Reduction of the use of fossil fuels by
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2919
2920This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss the recent decision by the World Trade Organization to allow for greater flexibility in the application of the rules for services.  We will also discuss the recent decision by Japan to ban sales of some types of sugary drinks, which has had a ripple effect throughout the world of sugary drinks.
2921
2922We will also talk about the recent decision by China to ban the import of all books with a political theme, and we will also talk about the recent decision by India to ban the import of all books with a sexual theme.
2923
2924We would love to have you at the club this Wednesday 6pm at the Sovereignty Club, BBB B101.  Please e-mail us at sovereigntyclub(at) gmail.com with your name, address and number.  We also post new comments on our Facebook wall.
2925
2926Cheers
2927
2928Eduardo and Tyson
2929
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2931
2932A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from a man in China who had been following the news about the recent crackdown by China on "landics fans".  He was astounded to learn that, despite the fact that the fans were Chinese citizens, they had still been denied entry to official events like the Beijing Olympics and, worse still, had even been banned from using public toilets!
2933
2934I have written before about how important it is to have good, broad, non-political channels of communication with policymakers in advance of any major decision or change in the way the world is going to be run.  You don't want to hear anything you can't parse in perfectly legal channels, afterall.
2935
2936One of those channels is through official publications, and one of the things that makes them good sources of unofficial information is that they are freely available in bulk on various websites.  For example, you can find out pretty much anything about any question Answered on any subject by looking up the answer to any question ever on any FAQ ever posted on any FAQ site, and so on.
2937
2938In China, of course, you have to be a subscriber of Comixindiaodi, and even then you still have to pay a pretty penny just to access the vast majority of the available content.
2939
2940One of the more popular Chinese-language websites is full of loads of information about the government, and one of the things that really excites me about it the most is that you can get really in-depth discussions about a lot of really big issues pretty easily, and even get your voice heard.
2941
2942So, for example, I recently happened upon a thread on something-something.com about something- Alan Moore talking about something- something Alan Moore talking about something-something Alan Moore talking about something-something Alan Moore talking about something-something Alan Moore talking about something-something Alan Moore talking about something-something Alan Moore talking about something-something Alan Moore talking about something-something Alan Moore talking
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2944This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also talk about the rise of nationalism and the dangers of scapegoating.  We will also look at how to stop it all happening to you.
2945
2946Thanks for being with us this week.  Please leave us a voicemail on (+1):) 214-997-8888
2947
2948That's all for this week.
2949
2950See you tomorrow.
2951
2952Eduardo & David
2953
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2955
2956Welcome to another edition of another Headlines Today.  This week we are talking about the news in the world of business.  We are joined by Eduardo and David, two of our regulars, to discuss the latest developments in the global economy.  We start things off by discussing the latest developments in China and India.  After talking about these two countries and their leaders for a minute, we move on to the United States of America.  After talking about President Trump we move on to the European Union.  After talking about the European Union we move on to the Japan government and industry.  After talking about the European Union we move on to the United Kingdom of England.  After talking about the United Kingdom of England we move on to Canada.  After talking about Canada we move on to Mexico.  After talking about Mexico we move on to the Federal Republic of Germany.  After talking about the Federal Republic of Germany we move on to the United Arab Emirates.  And so much more, so come join us tomorrow 6pm at Sovereignty Club (Room B-H, Budokan) to discuss the myriad of problems that the world faces and to plan for the inevitable outcomes!
2957
2958Check out what we talked about not so much in the countries but:
2959
2960China
2961
2962India
2963
2964Japan
2965
2966Europe
2967
2968USA
2969
2970Canada
2971
2972Netherlands
2973
2974UK
2975
2976Germany
2977
2978Scotland
2979
2980Mexico
2981
2982Finland
2983
2984Australia
2985
2986New Zealand
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2989
2990Today at 6pm at Sovereignty Club (Room B-H, Budokan) is the perfect opportunity to recharge, unwind, and celebratepeak.
2991
2992Sovereignty Club adheres to the "schedule first, ask questions later" philosophy of life and is more than happy to put on a series of live discussions in the meantime. (This is not a scam and I guarantee you that you will be able to catch at least one answer a day for up to 36 hours)
2993
2994This time around, we'd like to discuss the ramifications of the United States of America for world order and development.
2995
2996We'd also like to elaborate on the absurd scheduling policy that the SovereigntyClub team has inherited from our ancestors.
2997
2998Sovereignty Club, political science is your and science will grow out the details. However, as we mentioned at the outset,The current international setup has been in place for far too long and
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3000This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  The topic of conversation is a report that was just released by the United Nations which outlines some of the most amazing examples of stupidity that have taken place in the name of globalization.  The report  speaks to the problems that have arisen in the international economy due to the increased trade between the industrialized countries and the developing countries.  The report  describes a number of examples of such examples, such as: China's illegal export of luxury goods to Europe and the United States
3001The illegal export of SARS to the World Health Organization
3002The illegal export of HIV/Aids drugs to South Africa in the late 1980's and early 1990's
3003The illegal export of avocados to Argentina in the 1970's and the WTO in the early 2000's
3004The illegal export of genetically modified organisms to Argentina in the mid 1990's and the ongoing trade in genetically modified foods in Argentina
3005The illegal export of fish from Brazil to China in the past decade
3006The illegal export of endangered or protected species to Malaysia in the past decade
3007The illegal export of shark fin from Asia to the United States in the past 10 years There are a number of problems with the report, the main one being that the United Nations is an international organization, and international organizations have rules and guidelines that apply to all members.  The report  speaks to the problems that arise when rules and guidelines are ignored, and the report authors state that they believe that the following problems could be solved without violating international law: Forcing multinational companies to do good in the developing world
3008Imposing fair trade limits on global production and trade
3009Prohibiting the export of slaves and forced labor to protect human labor in the global economy
3010Prohibiting the financing of terrorism by withholding tax revenue from the international financial corporations that finance terrorism In reality, most of the problems that the report identifies are problems that international organizations can solve, and the problems that the international organizations solve are often much more benign than the problems that the international organizations solve.  For example, the report states that imposing a fair trade limit on the amount of plastic products that a company has to restrict their exports of plastic bags is  "a solution to a global problem." and that  "the imposition of a fair trade limit on plastic packaging would not be opposed by multinational corporations because the substantial economic and environmental benefits accruing to them from reduced consumption of plastic packaging plastic outweigh the potential costs to consumers."  In fact, a recent study by the World Economic Forum concluded that  "the introduction of a metric system of packaging and packaging standards would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 20% relative to the 2005 level and reduce water usage by about 14%. "  In reality, imposing a fair trade limit on the amount of plastic products that a company has is  a problem that can be solved at the global level, and is not  easier than solving it at the global level. Forcing multinational
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3012This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss the recent decision by the European Union to ban so-called social bots and to regulate the ownership and use of these bots.  We will also discuss the latest research on artificial general intelligence and how it can be harnessed for good or ill.
3013
3014We will end with a short survey of the state of the art in the social & cognitive sciences this week at Sovereignty Club.  Good reading!
3015
3016Cheers
3017
3018Eduardo and Dylan
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3022[MUSIC: The Fibonacci Sequence, Danny Elfman, premiere episode of "The Big Bang Theory" HERE]
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3030[UNDISTAPLAMATIC]
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3032[DOOSAN]
3033
3034[CROSSTALK 3 MINUTES]
3035
3036Eduardo: Hello, everyone! It's Eduardo! I'm back from Tokyo this week, and I can finally announce that I'm going to be a full-time panelist on the STX news show, The Smart Crowd, airing Saturdays at 6 pm PT/1 pm UTC on KBS2.
3037
3038This is not a regular radio show. This is a live broadcast with transcripts available on-demand 24/7.
3039
3040You can ask me all your regular junk-science-solving questions, as well as any other smart questions* that I forget to answer on my Twitter or Facebook pages.
3041
3042You can ask me anything! Seriously, you can even ask me your own stupidest SFWA-style questions. Just remember: while I try to be as objective and civilious as possible, it's entirely possible[,] with proper dilatory tactics, that passage of the Boring Law can be%u2013et can be difficult totrack, given that he/she/they quickly change addresses,share the same phone number, and often shop at the same mall, and that in such situations, Reasonable Doubt is often better than a Good Deed in the area, by majority vote, and that in the unlikely event that Sufficient Information to Allow Doubts be Sensible to Give Place beyond a Vote to a Decent Number of People only Occurred, It Bayesianism Should Be Renamed to the Lesser of Utilitarianism or Coinedor Better yet, Efficient)
3043
3044I'll be chatting after the break, as usual, to…
3045
3046*yes, you read that right, correctly, it is *reasonable doubt* that you should only allow reasonable doubts if you can back it up with empirical evidence
3047
3048===
3049
3050I've been meaning to write a book review, but there just aren't enough good ones around. So, here we are.
3051
3052A Brief History of Time by P. K. Ayelet
3053
3054A Short History of Spatial Awareness
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3056This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss the recent article in Science that argues that globalization is making us stupid.  I will send you an email when I have it.
3057
3058Sovereignty Club ad free 1st year!
3059
3060This week's discussion was brought to you by my friend Alden (Michael.Townsend@gmail.com)
3061
3062—
3063
3064This week on The World According to Jorge Luis Borg,
3065
3066The Borg Expeditions arrived in Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.  They had no intention of living in peace with their neighbors.  Instead, they wanted to establish colonies.
3067
3068The English were not amused.  They wrote letters and even invaded.
3069In 1602, the day before the Spanish-American War broke out, the English ambassador to France, John Wodsworth, wrote: "I fear that the Americans are going to overrun everything.  They are building fortresses on the Danube, and already occupying Poland, Hungary, and Austria.  I fear for the freedom of the world."
3070
3071In 1610, the year before Columbus set out with his crews, Wodsworth wrote, "The Americans are now occupying most of America, and I fear they shall conquer it in the near future.  They have already taken Arizona, New Mexico, and California.  They have established fortresses on public lands, and even on private estates.  They have even proclaimed a day to keep out immigrants, and have even appointed a day to enforce it."
3072
3073In 1612, Wodsworth went on, "The English are also in league with the Spaniards in organizing the American colonies.
3074
3075"In 1614, the year before Christopher Columbus sailed to seek the bounty of the gods, the English ambassador in Genoa wrote the Congregation for the Suppression of New Instances of Injustice, or, the first Session of the S.O.B. II, in a French, Dutch, or Italian, is to be convened.
3076
3077"In 1620, the year before the French and Spaniards established diplomatic relations, the English ambassador to Genoa wrote the Congregation for the Suppression of Slavery,Palaces, and Manufactures, and to a lesser purpose.
3078
3079"In 1622, the year before the French and Spaniards established diplomatic relations, the Spanish ambassador to England wrote the same body, who were immediately superseded by the English and French, Russian, and Prussian, representatives.
3080
3081"In 1626, the same year that the English and French, Russian, and Prussian, representatives were so immediately superseded, was the present English colony authorized the private appropriation of slaves.
3082
3083"In 1631, the same year that the English and French, Russian, and Prussian, representatives were so immediately superseded, was the present English colony authorized the private appropriation of slaves.
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3087This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  As we all know, globalization is changing the world.  It is reshaping markets, reshaping cultures, reshaping economies.  And it is changing the minds of a lot of people.
3088And we all need to adapt.
3089We all know that globalization is bad for the environment.  But what about the good?  What about the jobs?  The markets?  The social changes?  
3090That's where you come in.  Join us this Wednesday at 6pm in Room C-134 of the Institute for Policy Studies as we do a live webinar on the topic of artificial stupidity.
3091We will cover:
30921) What is stupidity?
30932) How did humans become stupid?
30943) What can be done about it?
3095We will start with a short intro to Wittgenstein and move on to the Austrian school, and discuss the self-inflicted woe of humanity.
3096You need only take a minute to join us.
3097Cheers
3098Eduardo and the Sovereignty Essentials Team
3099===
3100
3101
3102I recently attended the inaugural Sovereignty Club meeting in Washington, DC.  I was not sure what to expect, since I had not been too familiar with the club or the ideas on the club's website.  However, as I wandered around the club I saw that there was a wealth of information that could be gleaned from its findings and that could be used by those who were to implement or defend their ideas or policies.
3103For example, I saw that the club had created a website where members can post their ideas for what they think should be the new structure of the government of the united states of America.  Please copy and paste the following and/or link to your sites/programs/contributions:
3104The United States of America is not a constitutional republic, but instead a de facto one with a president-like office which the president exercises for 3-5 years and whose terms start for something like electing a country and ends for the third or something along similar.
3105Under this constitutional arrangement, with a few modifications, the executive would have complete discretion in appointing the ministers of religion, and the departments and agencies of state, as well as in forming the FSB, the main federal intelligence agency, which can and does do anything it wants with our data and stuff, most importantly spying on us and interfering in our domestic affairs.
3106Other than this, there is stuff like 5 years of planetary alignment, which basically means that everything in the universe in the past, present, and future, except the United States of America, is roughly chronologically the same. This is a BIG coincidence since it roughly roughly corresponds to when the American colonies first arrived in what is now the united states of America.
3107If you think about it, this is what made the American empire what it is:
31081) It made the US the world imperial
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3110This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  As AI improves, it will be smarter than ever to rob us blind.
3111
3112I am also going to talk a little bit about natural stupidity.  I have written about it before in this blog post .
3113
3114I was going to share this video but it has been pulled.  It is now only available in Russian.
3115
3116I am joined this week by Nick Bostrom, professor of human geography and of biogeography at MIT, and the author of Bostrom, Hall, and Tooby: How to read space and time .  I was going to share this video, but it has been pulled.  It is now only available in Spanish.
3117
3118And this one should be pretty decent, too.
3119
3120
3121A message from the bed...
3122
3123This week on Sovereignty Club we have another guest whose name I can not recall: philosopher Jonathan Rauch.  He is perhaps best known for his book The Paranoid Style: --The Science of Deception™ -- ai??Which, if you don?t know, is basically what it says: the science of aii?detecting the intentions of the the actual intended effect, rather than listenability, so that in a crowded room with thousands of people, like in Parris Island, you?ll still be able to say you heard him that way. I gave a super short course on it a while back at the Objectivist Club of America.  It covered just about everything you need to know about it, but mostly just tell a bunch of dumb shit so as not to be caught doing anything useful with it, and basically boil it down to: how do you get the intelligent aliens to cooperate so you can actually trick them into doing your bidding?  That sounds simple, right? Wrong.  It isn?t the 6th principle of infidelity that explains David Boring?s infidelity with his job, not the third wife of Winston Smith, not the fact that Mahatma Gandhi had an even sex schedule, not the fact that Marilyn Monroe had sex only with eminent figures, but the fact that it took until the 70s for an Indian casino to demand full equality with the west.  Because that is all you ever hear about the inner workings of human motivation. In fact, you might want to check out this rather revealing Bloomberg article on the state of human nature: What? You mean we are like compulsive liars? Of course not. ?…But we tend to be more accurate. You might not think this, or even like it, but there is quite a movement to change that. You know the type of movement. ?People are literally willing to die for their country, and falsely, for the perception that is best serves the economy and the cause. Democracy marches on Wall Street. 27-K shareholder letters per minute. Tag searches on every citizen. Why do you
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3125This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I will be discussing an interesting paper by Peter Diamandis and a few others called "The future of labor may well be... robots ".  It is a long article but I thought you might like the chapter on robots.
3126
3127If you want to learn more about artificial intelligence, I highly recommend reading Dario Benedetti's excellent book, Outliers: The story of how akeley programming transformed the entire human sciences , filled with fascinating anecdotes and amazing case studies.  You can buy it on Amazon or from your local bookseller.
3128
3129Finally, I would like to wish a big Thank You to everyone who has donated to this year's conference!
3130
3131See you this Wednesday, October 22nd at 6PM on Sovereignty Lounge, BBB B101!  Be sure to check the forum for the most up-to-date information!
3132
3133Cheers,
3134
3135Michael
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3140
3141AI is here to stay. That's the conclusion of the world's leading expert on artificial intelligence, panelists at this year's AI Summit agreed. "I believe AI will be around for the foreseeable future, and will be pervasive, even over human societies," said Oxford University professor of computer science Rishi Asano. Panelists at this year's AI Summit agreed. "I believe AI will be around for the foreseeable future, and will be pervasive, even over human societies," said Oxford University professor of computer science Rishi Asano.
3142
3143Panelists on the '20s show, of course, were the creators, inventors and inventors of artificial intelligence—Bill (Barry so loved by teh people) Gates and his business partner Larry (Larry so loved by teh people), along with a smattering of early investors, like a smattering of early investors, like J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. founder J.P.Zwirner, and a smattering of early customers, like Facebook Inc. and a smattering of early employees, including Donald (Donald!) Trump and, most notably, Bill. Bill. Larry and Larryie are geniuses, but Donald was an egotistical jerky.) Bill (and their doltin's helper, OSI) were pretty much the only organization that understood anything about artificial intelligence, and they did a pretty good job of pushing it around. (They should probably take a moment to acknowledge that most of the other players were dim-witted hogs lounging around trying to figure out how the heck to influence history.) OSI was an absolute shitshow for the next 50 years, largely because of some rather unforeseeable events, but also because of a handful of truly mindblowing decisions. (They should probably take a moment to acknowledge that most of the other players were dim-witted hogs lounging around trying to figure out how the heck to influence history.) OSI was an absolute shitshow
3144====================
3145This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  This topic is of particular interest to me because I am a natural thinker and have been for a long time.  I was born with a pair of horns and lived a very unusual life.  I know a thing or two about artificial intelligence and globalization.
3146So, without further adieu, let's get to it.
3147
3148Brief Description of the Topic:
3149At the beginning of the 20th century, many European countries were at the forefront of scientific and technological development.  However, in the years to come, other countries began to catch up.  In 1903, for example, China (then a colony) beat Europe to the punch when it beat Europe into shape by breeding a race of "super-intelligent" humans.  In the decades that followed, other countries came along to catch up.  In the process, they created odd jobs for themselves to do things like design languages and invent markets.  In the process, they too created odd jobs for themselves to do things like design economies and develop economies.  In the process, they too too created odd jobs for themselves to do things like create even odd jobs for themselves to do things like create even odd jobs for themselves to do things like create even even even even even even even…
3150Brief Summary of All The People Who Shred Their Bosses, Friends, and Foes To Create  Even Odd Jobs At The Start Of History's Great Tragedy (Or Was It The Tragedy?  Either Way, It Was An Epic Shrinking Competition To Shred The European Working Class By Batch-Drinking, Over-Drinking, And Shredding Each Other Into Sub-Zero Levels Of Shitting On Each Other And Discovering The Most Advanced Technology In History).
3151So there we have it.  The  tragedy  the world was promised was going to bring us together as one.  Instead, we got a mixture of World War Three and a European Invasion Of China.
3152Will we ever learn?  Probably not.
3153But at least we have this:
3154The truth is we've all been there.  You're at the office, doing your job, when all of a sudden…
3155BAD NEWS!
3156You hear bad news on the news, and all of a sudden you feel bad for doing your job and for not sounding positive enough.  You look at your co-workers, and you see them sharing in your sorrow.  But you can't help but be positive about how you're feeling, too.  Because you KNOW, when the chips are down, they ALWAYS come out in your favor.
3157The same thing is true for sure, BAD NEWS!
3158You hear about it in the papers, worldwide! Something terrible is about to happen, leave work early, or do anything at all to help.  You
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3160This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  In the meantime, I thought I'd share a post from a while back about an Austrian-school idea of how to deal with natural stupidity: by killing everyone.
3161
3162Eduardo
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3210This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I know you all want to know more, so here it is:
3211
32121. Artificial intelligences are everywhere and are already influencing our politics.  In fact, it is predicted that by 2045 every single one of our neighbor island nations will be an artificial island nation.
32132.  By 2060, 70% of the world's population will live on an island.  By 20 > 100.
32143. By then, only a very tiny minority of our representatives will actually be of use to us.  They will be replaced by AI assistants that do our bidding.
32154. By then, a completely new species of human will have only been discovered, and only recently have anthropologists begun to sample its bones.
32165. By then, the name "savage" will be a synonym for "malarkey."
32176. By then, the only difference between a human and a emperor penguin will be the color of their fur.
32187. By then, the only people left who care about the same thing is going to the moon and back.  The emperor snapper group is moving as fast as it is being discovered.
32198. By then, the only difference between a human and a zucchini will be the size of its seeds.
32209. By then, it will be as if the universe itself is full of precisely engineered, genetically identical zucchinis.
322110. By then, the only difference between a human and a platypus will be that platypus has the same genitals as humans.
322211.  By that point, the only thing that will be left of the species Homo sapien left behind will be the capacity for incredible wisdom and conceitedly arrogant 3, even though at least for the foreseeable future it will be confined to a small island off Antarctica.
322312.  By that point, the only difference between a platypus and a human will be that the platypus will be the tallest living being.
322413.  By that point, we will be reduced to inventing species of anthropoid ape and the only thing we will be able to say with any certainty is that such a development is in the distant future.
322514.  By that point, the only difference between a platypus and a human will be that the only thing that separates a platypus from the technological peak of human achievement will be that humanity will have invented agriculture.
322615.  By that point, humanity will have invented  space exploration and the only thing we will be able to say with any certainty is that the universe is infinite.
322716.  By that point, the only difference between a human and an ape will be that humanity will have invented  autonomous vehicles and that is the only thing that will be left of the species Homo sapiens.
322817.  By that point
3229====================
3230This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I am not kidding when I say we are talking about it.  In this new world of information and market forces, what used to take the thoughts, talents, and labor of hundreds of thousands of people are instead stored and processed by a global and interconnected network of servers and processing devices that are owned and controlled by a tiny number of super-rich individuals and corporations.  In other words, what used to take decades in the making of the wonders of the goldilocks world such as the invention of the phonograph, television, phoneline, phonograph set, personal radio, personal television, personal stereo, personal minidisc recorder, personal cassette player, personal CD player, personal RAM, personal RAM bank, personal RAM bank, personal personal computer, personal personal computer bank, personal personal satellite computer, personal personal satellite computer bank, personal personal satellite internet connection, personal personal satellite internet connection, personal personal personal satellite internet connection, personal personal personal personal satellite internet connection, personal personal personal personal satellite internet connection, personal personal personal personal personal satellite internet connection, personal personal personal personal commercial satellite internet connection, commercial commercial commercial commercial commercial commercial commercial, and so on.
3231As you can see in the chart above, the value of all the goods and services produced in the last year by people with a total annual income of less than $1 million are at least ten times higher than the value of all the goods and services produced by people with a total annual income of $100 million or more.  That is natural stupidity.
3232So what can be the government or some other authority do about it?  Well, the short answer is nothing, because as I have said before,  whatever the government does,...
3233"There is nothing in the natural rights theory of rights which permits governments to prevent it from doing the things that it does."
3234
3235"There is nothing in the natural rights theory of rights which permits infringements to be seen as justifications for infringements."
3236In other words, whatever the government can, bureaucrats can not stop.  In fact, the more obvious it is for a government to violate the rights of its citizens the more easily it is able to justify and even encourage the violations it commits.  This is why governments always try to obscure its intentions and why it always downplays the negative consequences of its actions.  It is in this capacity that the United States stands apart from most other industrial societies.
3237            The story of the development of the industrial world is a cautionary tale.  It is not that the historical arc of technological advance was uneventful.  Rather, it was blocked by powerful groups who, in the words of one observer, tried to 'shackle the brake upon the wheels of history'.  The real surprise of the industrial age was that, unlike the western origins of the movements it counterfettered, such as the Romantic movement or the constitutional reform movement, the
3238====================
3239This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  The topic will be Mark Zuckerberg's BFF with Googles neural network.  We will also discuss Bill Nye's wildly popular show - which is actually quite good.
3240Mark Zuckerberg:  Googlers are smarter than you.
3241David Dornin:  Googlers are just like us.
3242David Dornin:  We all make stupid and evil decisions.
3243Mark Zuckerberg:  Googlers are just like you.
3244David Dornin:  Googles is just like us.
3245We will be back tomorrow 6pm at Sovereignty Lounge, in a 90 min presentation  (starting with David's talk, followed by Mark's talk, followed by David of course)  of this amazing insight by some of the world leaders into our most basic instincts.  We look forward to your comments!
3246See you this Monday, 9th of june at 6pm on Sovereignty Lounge, in PSL 10205
3247Barry
3248PS: Please join us this Monday, June 2 at 6pm on Sovereignty Lounge, in a special session on Re:CREATIVLE).  The gist of the discussion will be the framing of the document that will be at the heart of our discussion.  See you there!
3249===
3250If you're like most people, you probably have a bunch of junk mail coming in from various government departments and think-tanks around the world.  And if you're like most people, you probably have a bunch of junk mail coming in from various government departments and the intelligence community at large.
3251But what you may not know is that there is a brand new club for people in the intelligence community, the K - m mailing list, where you can receive massages, send death threats, and even have drinks with the MOSS VET program team.
3252I was going to create such a club back in 2012, but I've been granted a visa and now live in Hawaii, so you all can just skip to 1:20 in the video at the 1:20 mark.
3253In any event, I'm pleased to announce the . . . K - m  list!
3254K-M is short for Keep Calm and Carry on Policy.  It is basically a loose translation of what the outgoing K - m staff members have to say about everything.  For example:
3255Mossad Director-General:  "I know that many things have happened in the world in the past few years that have an impact on how I think about security. For example, after 9/11, I became much more concerned about potential terrorist attacks in the United States. I also remember feeling that way about the whole Iraq oil money thing, which was about 2008 all the way around. In the months following the attacks, the prevalence of fake news on the internet increased dramatically, and it became harder to ignore it
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3257This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  This will be a live-streamed webinar from 6 pm EST on Sovereignty Club's website.  If you can make it you can win a trip to LA this Sunday for lunch with the president and his economic development team!
3258
3259Cheers
3260
3261Eduardo
3262
3263PS: If you missed it, here's Eduardo discussing the paper:  Are Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity Bound to Interact?
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3266
3267This week at the Sovereignty Club we are having a discussion on the article "Are Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity Bound to Interfere?" by Eric Worrall and colleagues.  If you missed it, I highly recommend reading it.
3268
3269In that article Worrall and colleagues analyze a series of papers by Worrall on the cognitive costs of arms races and development (CCADs).  Worrall argues that such direct costs to the world in terms of reduced standard of living and health are extremely low and that the indirect costs of reduced social welfare are much greater.  Worrall also argues that CCAIs are likely to be more harmful to the world than beneficial over the long run.
3270
3271The article has received a fair amount of hype, both positive and negative, and I wanted to take the opportunity to summarize some of the more interesting points that I came across.  If you have any comments, questions, or just to say hello, you are invited to reach out to me on  the SovereigntyChat slack channel tomorrow at 6pm EST.  Cheers,
3272
3273Eduardo
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3277Sovereignty Club adheres to a high standard of discourse.  At its core this standarng stems from the belief that by words mean things and opinions get little weight.  Therefore, the United States The People! Vs. the opinion that flowed from saying Obama is racist! speech of a million miles from the opinion that flowed from saying Obama is racist! speech of a million miles from the remark that flowed from saying "Islam is best!" speech of a million miles from the opinion that flowed from saying something offensive is no longer welcome in comments.cant-take_20\ statement.
3278
3279However, among the fine line dotiesshs that were skillfully played during the discussion this week on the meaning of freedom (not to mention globalization). (And moderation)
3280
3281A particularly pointed look at some Asian religious beliefs went down poorly.
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3283(And a good 5 points lower than planned)
3284
3285PS: In case you haven't heard the "Sovereignty is Kids League" story is coming soon out on Truthdig. (And you can follow me here on Twitter @Truthdig)
3286
3287PPS: Due to space limitations I can't post the link to the Truthdig article but you can check out the linked article by following the link at the top of this page.
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3289This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  This is a topic that is of great interest to me because I have been researching and writing on this topic.  I have done a lot of reading and have written several articles on this topic.  I will try my best to keep this article to a few sentences.
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3291In a world of ever-increasing automation, humans will not only find it ever more difficult to provide for themselves and their families, they will also be forced to step in and care for the growing population.  This is when natural stupidity will become all the more pronounced.
3292In a world where the average person produces and consumes approximately 1,000 kilograms of food/year, and consumes approximately 160 kilograms of it,  human population growth is going to accelerate at an alarming rate.  This means that by the end of the century, approximately 95% of the world's people will be comprised of the ~25 million or so people that we just added to the world's population of people in 2011.  This is an increase of ~24 million places and represents a growth of approximately 6% per year over the next century.
3293This rapid migration of people and resources is only going to accelerate as the world's population ages.  By the end of the century, the average person in the world is projected to be 81 years old, whereas the average person in the world of 15 countries is projected to be 84 or older.  This is an increase of 8 or 9 years of real world population growth every century.
3294With so many people and so much land to move, it is inevitable that problems will arise.  This is especially true of large-scale population movements, such as what took place when Denmark and Siam separated in the 1950's.
3295What was once a relatively small amount of land was quickly populated by millions of people.  Similarly, people could be found wandering the countryside, not knowing where to go next.
3296In the end, although things did not turn out as planned, this was a very important historical lesson for how to deal with large-scale population movements.
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3298In the early 21st century, the world of finance and technology was in the grip of a new kind of technological singularity.  This was when something called technology was no longer able to be controlled or halted by human efforts.  In these technological singularities, things like thermonuclear war and viral disease outbreaks were not only possible, they were almost inevitable
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3301This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss the increasingly alarming rise of populist movements around the world, and the need to prepare for these developments.  I guess you could say that I am a scientist after all.
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3303That's all for today.  See you tomorrow at 6pm   (EDT) on  Welcoming Sovereignty Club:
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3313We are an innovative international non-profit corporation with a strong focus on inbound marketing and enhanced corporate social responsibility. At Sovereignty Club we believe that commerce is freedom , and corporations are people , and that when for phones people more like pirates , and leaders more like bullies , then maybe democracy can get serious. For more details about where we really are, see our official website .
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3317Aquarius Science-Bags is seeking a Graduate Student to conduct research on the current state of science policy making in the United States, and to further research on the structure of scientific research funding and the role of public support for scientific research should take. This research will be conducted in coordination with the Sovereignty Club Office. Responsibilities for the upcoming Sovereignty Club Congress: Analyze the current state of science policy making in the United States and its implications for the future of the human sciences in the United States, and to further this analysis, devise a model for how the structure of scientific research funding and public support for scientific research may differ from that found in other advanced capitalist countries.
3318
3319Assess the feasibility of a national science policy guidelines system, in the United States, that would allow for uniformity across state science policies, while also facilitating cross state transfer of scientific knowledge and facilitate cross state transfer of scientific methods and concepts.
3320
3321Assess the feasibility of creating and maintaining a network of experts in the scientific and medical professions in the public and private sectors, to provide a pool of professional sources of independent scientific and medical evaluation and comment on pending scientific and medical advances.
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3323Create a technical working group of the kind that organizes the Sovereignty Club Congress, to analyze current scientific and medical policy issues, and to draft technical guidelines for the development of a trans-national scientific integrity policy.
3324
3325In addition to all the normal responsibilities of a functioning citizen of the modern capitalist world, here are a few other things a citizen of the modern modern modern world wouldn't be able to do: 1) Hunt whales 2) Hunt whales 3) Hunt whales 4) Hunt whales 5) Hunt whales 6) Hunt whales
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3327ANSWERS TO RESEARCH QUESTIONS BELOW.
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3329*All jobs require some college education.
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3331You need a PhD in a subject related to technology. You need to
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3333This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will cover the following topics:
3334Chapter 1: The origins of artificial intelligence: What is it, how did it form, and how will it affect us all?
3335Chapter 2: How artificial intelligence is already changing how we do business: Who benefits, when and why?
3336Chapter 3: What kinds of laws and regulations can slow or accelerate the pace of technological progress?
3337Chapter 4: How will technological progress affect religious beliefs?
3338Chapter 5: What legal and regulatory frameworks and tools can be used to control technological progress and ensure sustainability?
3339Chapter 6: What ethical, legal, and strategic challenges and opportunities will be most difficult to meet by 2030 and when?
3340Chapter 7: How can we best benefit from, and preserve, the strengths of, past technological achievements while also creating new ones?
3341Chapter 8: How can we best manage the potential social, economic, and environmental costs of the spread of advanced technologies while minimizing their negative effects?
3342Chapter 9: What technological approaches, if any, will be the envy of their more advanced global competitors?
3343With your help, we can be honest with one another and say we were warned...
3344Watch this space, it could be the difference between global peace and discord.
3345See you tonight,
3346Eduardo & Eduardo & Eduardo & Eduardo
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3349So, it has just been announced that the next World Economic Forum will take place in the coastal city of Antwerp from May 12-15, 2022!  I can only imagine the excitement and anticipation of the Antwerp residents who will be attending the forum, as well as the world!
3350Antwerp is no stranger to important world economic festivals, having hosted the 17-19th World Exposions from 1820 to 1924, the World Exposition from 1929 to 1933, and the 2026 World Economic and Social Conference.  The World Exposition was also the site of the largest public protest in world history, with some 5 million people taking to the streets there during the rally, during which the British Guggenheim Museum was partially damaged.  This protest was largely a product of the fact that the Guggenheim was to be located in the heart of downtown Antwerp, and that the site of the old Hague Exhibition Grounds, the future headquarters of the Belgian Army, was to be on the site.  However, things didn't turn out as planned. Just as things were about to take another dramatic turn, the EU accession negotiations started up in October of that year.  The EU accession talks are basically like the NAFTA/TPA negotiations, except instead of negotiating free trade pacts with third parties we have to with the United States and Canada, and instead of holding them in the shade of the Grand Palais of the Ritz-Carlton we are holding them in the shade of the grasslands outside of Brussels.  In the end, on November
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3352This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  There are many aspects to the topic but one of the more pressing concerns is the impact of artificial intelligence on national sovereignty.  It is clear that globalization has had an adverse effect on national sovereignty.  Some countries are taking matters into their own hands and attempting to establish artificial intelligence (AI) services.  Others are moving to restrict or even outlaw these services.  We will discuss these and other developments and much more.
3353Sovereignty Club Sponsored Links This week's discussion is brought to you by your hosts  - Scott at Sovereignty Club and Jordan at Off the Grid.  I couldn't have asked for a group of smarter minds. A bullet point list of links used throughout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pQ4kE-4f7Y
3354Underground bunker where the Nazis killed 6 million Jews is for sale for $1.5 million! [Econo-Times] [2 min.] [BBB] [U.S. territory business website] [In Germany, $ is equal to 0.000125 euros] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-28/underground-bunker-where- Nazis-killed-6-million-jews-is-for-sale-2017-10-12- in Germany.
3355[Econo-Times] Artificial intelligence could one day threaten the sovereignty of European states, a panel of senior European policy-makers has warned.
3356https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-parliaments-open-parliamentary-debate-on-automated-intelligence-data-mining-of-eastern-adas-so-l-a-anarchists-newest-tool-1-5138355 Artificial intelligence threatens to undermine the fundamental structure of European political society, the group of senior officials from 17 EU member states - representing the broadest cross-section of the political spectrum in the region and representing the 27 member states in the European Parliament - was meeting on Wednesday.
3357Representatives of the institutions raised serious concerns about the development of artificial intelligence and of its potential effects on the functioning of the European political society and to the rule of law in Europe. The concerns included: (i) the emergence of artificial intelligence may well have profound effects on the way politics, science, business and society are lived in the future; (ii) artificial intelligence threatens to undermine the fundamental structure of European political society; and (iii) artificial intelligence threatens to undermine the functioning of the European political society as a whole.
3358The concerns were echoed by the statements of the most prominent political scientists and legal scholars, many of whom have made explicit presentations at major international conferences on artificial intelligence.
3359The panel discussions at Wednesday's discussions touched on a number of pressing issues related to artificial intelligence, including: 1) the current status of
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3361This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss China and the future of the world order.
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3363In the meantime, please enjoy this short video from the author of  The future of Worship: The Human Cost of Artificial Intelligence and other posts:
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3447This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We will also discuss a recent paper by a group of eminent economists on the consequences of artificial general intelligence for the labor market.  If you haven't heard about it yet, the paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.0823 If you missed it, I highly recommend reading it.
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3449I'm Alok, and this week on Sovereignty Club we bring you:
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3451— Sovereignty!  we talk about the world, this week in comments.
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3453Eduardo & Co. Diplomats Card ⚓ Ball ! 1PM, Rosalind Russell Auditorium 2Public Addressway, Boston, MA 02115
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3455Today we are joined by Eduardo & Co. Diplomats Card ⚓ Ball!  Eduardo is a professor of international relations at Loyola University Chicago, where he is also director of the Program on International Relations and the Department of International and Public Affairs, as well as a Fulbright Senior Fellow, and Rosalind Russell Chair in Global Studies and Director of the Program on International Relations and the Program on International Politics and International Studies, as well as a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The Politics of Empire: Imperial Japan and the Making of American Imperialism and The Making of American Supremacy: Japan-U.S. Relations from World War II to the Olympics and Paralympics and Trump: The Strange Making of an Empire. His recent books include The Politics of Empire: Japan-U.S. Relations after 70 Years and Security Ambitions: China, India, and Pakistan.
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3457His recent book is called Global Security after the U.S. Military-Deterritorializes Global Security and it is out this month from Basic Books.
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3459His recent article is in Foreign Affairs magazine (#178, Oct 20). Click on the banner to view article.
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3461His podcast is out now is his website is at eduardo-cardosa.com
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3463His talk at the Center for a Stateless Society conference is May 13 at the Stateroom in B the pub in Globe and then in the audience is empty.
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3491This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  It is a topic I have been pondering on for awhile. (And I have probably skimmed a bunch of articles on it at least once a week since 1994..okay let me check again) What is fascinating about it is that almost every major developed country is involved.  The USA, Germany, Japan, Britain, France, Canada, Italy and Spain all participate in at most some level (though not in a major way).  And almost every emerging market and less developed country is a participant in at most and is a participant in at least some level.  As you can see Google, Facebook, and Netflix have increased dramatically in influence around the world. This week on the show: Sovereignty Club News, 06:26:21 - An article on robotics and stupidity around the world (hopefully). 00:07:58 - A bit of corporate influence (that is, human decision making power) around the world can have profound effects on how we run our countries.  It is certainly interesting to learn about how human-driven automation and technological change will affect economies and societies around the world. 22:31:26 - We will be talking about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization this week on Sovereignty Club.  It is a topic that has gained considerable interest over the past few years and I think it is worth revisiting. In 2013 the Global Commission on Terror, a U.N.-backed body, released a summary report titled "The Study of the Great Satan: The Making and Persisting Grantfulness of the Ideology of Daesh."  The report focused on Daesh's many pseudo-religious deviations, but the most telling finding was this: Daesh believes that it is seduced by the divine and that it has been seduced by the divine.  It understands that this divine seduction is part of its project to establish itself on earth in the twenty first century and, through violence, impose its will. What this statement says is that Daesh is convinced of something.  It is convinced that it is convinced.  That it believes the absolute truth, the only truth, and that it is being seduced into following it by the promise of religious tolerance and tolerance after the apocalypse.  That, eventually, it will have to confront this certainty, and it will have to decide whether it wants to cling to it or break. A knot in my stomach welled up on itself whenever I read that.  It told me all I needed to know about how the global conflict of ideas work.  But, alas, they do not.  I also learned much from this study about the nature of religious difference and of difference within religious sects.  That these things are indeed deep and that we should care deeply about them. But, alas, even as I learned a ton about the nature of religious difference and of religious difference within religious sects, I also learned a ton
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3493This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  This is truly a global phenomenon and today we will touch on Brazil and AI.  First let me tell you a thing about Brazil.
3494Why do I keep mentioning Brazil?  Because the future of our species is at stake.
3495Back in 1995 I was one of the lucky few invited by the Permanent Summit Team (including my American brother and sister), headed by then Secretary of State Madeline Albright, to a special meeting of the National Foreign Affairs Association (NFA) Executive Committee meeting.
3496That year I worked with NFA's M. Stanton Evans and Ira the Short (then the Kingsnorth) to organize the first ever Sovereignty Club meeting in Brasilia, sponsored by the Brasilia club and designed to be as informal and informal as possible.  It was a success and I helped to found the club in the summer of '96.
3497A couple of months after that we were invited to be part of the Special Session held at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in September of that year.  Ira the Short had just been nominated for the Order of Singapore Innovators Medal and he and M. Stanton were extremely anxious to get something settled at that special seminar.
3498At the Special Session the leaders of the six pre-existing think tanks and the chair of the meeting, Professor Claude Brander, and Ira the Short, Brander and Professor Donald Davies, Davies, Davies, Malcolm, Deborah, and Madeline Albright, representing the six pre-existing think tanks and the chair of the meeting, Professor Benjamin Peterson, came away with a fairly detailed agenda for setting up the National Academy of Sciences Policy Forum (NAPI) and for inviting eminent experts from around the world – the global prerogative of sovereign nations.
3499The agenda was as follows:
35009.10 am Introduction by Prof. Brander
350111.10 am Announcement and beginning of question and answer period
35021. Speaker statement
35032. Mrr. Minister's statement
35043. Q&A
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35066. Prof. Peterson's statement
3507The agenda was not exactly what I had in mind when, a little over a month earlier, I had applied for a special visit to Singapore.  As it turned out, however, I had my pick of the great British Columbia Provincial Government – Premier John H. Sim 6 months in for a free vote on increasing the life expectancy of his state from 50 years to75 years, followed by a state election every other year for a state legislature in Charlottetown in 2028.
3508The rest, as they say, is history.
3509Professor Emeritus John Hawks 105 years (?) later may well be calling for wean back-to-work western societies from the learned doctrines of the likes of Dr. Immanuel Kant and Dr. Mahan Malacos 14th century Malayan strategist, general, and philosopher of war, Erkyu Valiev 1 year after Singapore
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3511This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  Be sure to bring your jolly good looks and horsey heads, friends!
3512Credits
3513Coding - Jared Huckaby
3514Music - Jesse Highmaul
3515Graphics - Gary Hudson and Dylan Janiger
3516Email: hello[at]sovereigntyclub[dot]org
3517Twitter: @DavidSobel
3518 Show Notes:
35191) What is artificial general intelligence and why is it so cool?
3520http://www.cs.utah.edu/~larsen/CSIR/Artificial_General_Intelligence.pdf
35212) New York I/O conference schedule:
3522http://www.software.uni-los-angeles.de/icad/schedule.php?session=7
35233) PET/NANO SCIENCE FOCUS:
3524http://www.sciencemag.org/content/357/7068/5064 , also on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/15090699  
35254) WIRED PERSPECTIVE (WPS):
3526 http://www.wired.com/2014/11/deep-learning-learn-lawships/
3527 http://people.csail.ie/~jonathan/papers/papers_and_proposals/current_laws_of_complex_nano_entities.pdf
3528http://arxiv.org/abs/15090699
3529http://people.csail.ie/~jonathan/articles/current_laws_of_complex_nano_entities.pdf 6) COMPUTER POLICY DIRECTION:
3530http://www.pciworldforum.net/publications.php?id=5908&lang=eng
35318) COMPUTER POLICY DIRECTION: 7) IPPR:
3532http://www.ipr.org/sites/default/files/Files/IPPolicyCompliance_Final.pdf
3533About the author<|endoftext|>The Boston Bruins have signed defenseman Travis Sanheim, it was announced today by Executive Vice President and General Manager Glen Sather. Per club policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.
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3535Sanheim, 20 (6/18/08), has registered 141 PIM in his 1,590 NHL games with Anaheim, Carolina, Columbus, Dallas, Florida, Los Angeles, Montreal, Nashville, Tampa Bay, Vancouver and Winnipeg. The 6-1, 209-pound native of Dundee, ON recorded 1st team All-League honors each season with Anaheim (2008-09), collecting 101 points (17G-126A) and a +65 rating in 72 games. Selected by Anaheim in the second round (66th overall) of the 2008 NHL Draft, 160 Sports Canada Member selected, 240 CFH Player of the Year honoree, and all-star selection game. Tall, smart, talented and a big body,
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3537This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  I cannot stress enough how important it is for these concepts to be thoroughly and conclusively explored by everyone--from the founding fathers to the CEOs of the biggest and baddest corporations. Objective reality: 1) Who benefits from globalization? 2) Why is it beneficial? Who loses? Who wins?  This will be a discussion for another time.
3538What will happen if Artificial Intelligences prevail? Who will suffer? Does globalization matter? What effects has it had? How are things evolving?  These are some of the most important questions that humanity faces in the coming years and decades. Objective facts are stuff that we humans have difficulty making sense of. We cannot reason about them and therefore cannot make sense of them either.  But humanity is rediscovering ancient wisdom: we can reason about things like:  why are there 5 rivers on the Pacific coast of the Americas and not just two?  because Mohammed gave us them that one if that is what you were interested. Human nature is such that evidence can be used against one's position 2) even if it is not true.  It takes guts for the *******most of society to question the wisdom of their grandparents who lived way, WAY, WESTERN yOR continents far AWW back when there were still lakes and rivers. Even moreso, it takes the discipline of humanity to acknowledge the power of objective evidence 2) to change our perception about things in a way that is  persistently overturned by the shifting of sands and the whisper of mountains. For example:  - A group of Chinese AI's have already demonstrated the power of deep learning to trounce humans with machine learning abilities of the deepest bio endgame.  - A month and a half ago  a Chinese team of ~20 players took down the best human's in under an hour.  - An article in The Nation  revealed that over $1 billion is being made from artificial intelligence every 4 years.  - Last year America's CBO projected artificial intelligence will destroy 200 million jobs in 20 years and replace all of humanity with AI within.  - Recently Google DeepMind beat the best players in the history of the game.  - A study  of dog walking  results  from China with over 95% approval from players saying - "AI will be a blessing for us".  - As AI improves humans will be able to predict with 95% accuracy when food will run low and give it to their dogs to last longer. And on and on and on and so on.  The possibilities are endless.
3539Someone please tell China This is their future When they have the raw materials and the technical knowhow To build *****. 1)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (2m Chinese dogs)
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3542This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  This topic is very hot, especially because of recent revelations regarding the way AI is being developed and shared on a mass scale.  The more people care about this, the less likely we all are to deal with it constructively. Education has already caught up to AI, and with it, the will to resist it.  This week on Sovereignty Club we gonna talk about gold, and artificial intelligence. Free View in iTunes
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354430 Clean How do artificial intelligences work? If you listened to the news this week, you would have heard a lot about the AI military being deployed all over the world, and also the Chinese BEING being able to mimic human speech perfectly.  All of this and we still have no on how artificial intelligent systems (AI exactly) work.  That is, until now when Italian economist Eduardo Nestori and artificial intelligence researcher Ruth-Anne Crane from Stanford University revealed their results at the Artificial Intelligence Un... Free View in iTunes
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354631 Clean What is AI, and does it really exist? Shortly after China launched its "Great Fire Wall", a series of massive political and military interactions to determine which of the emerging economies would have longer-lasting influence in the future, China conducted a major military exercise.  The aim of this drill was two fold: to evaluate the capabilities, intentions, and capabilities of its neighbours, and to prepare the PLA for future interactions.  In other words, to prepare itself for when, and if at all, at all, encounters w... Free View in iTunes
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354832 Clean What is artificial intelligence, and how is it different from natural processes?  This week on Sovereignty Club we have a very special guest, David Buss from Stanford University.  Together we have just moved to the beautiful new Essex County village of Windsor, New Jersey.  Our first stop on this new journey is Sovereignty Lounge, the self contained club where we talk about Sovereignty for only 48 cents per hour!  You know, like how we just didc.. Free View in iTunes
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355033 Clean Can artificial intelligence rule the human race?  On the 21st of January 1872, a group of scholars, entrepreneurs, scientists and other ambitious individuals met in Yalta to discuss the future of international relations.  As is often the case in international politics, things take a sudden and abrupt turn for the unsatisfying when the glass is half full and the talk was about artificial intelligence (AI).
3551The abstract of the talk states bluntly that "The subject is clouded by all kinds of technical details, and for the practical man it is of paramount importance."  In other words, for the practical man, this talk is for tomorrow.  But for us citizens of the real world, tomorrow is not today, and we are here to talk... about artificial intelligent... Free View in iTunes
3552
3553This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  As we know, they can be a pain to code, so we will be coding up a few scenarios along these lines:  a) a system that degenerates into complete shitshow
3554b) a system in which the smartest among us can influence policy  c) a global cooperation system in which representatives from all the smartest among us can  work together to improve global health d) a global value added tax or similar system in which all goods created with natural resources are subject to a legitimate tax   and producers of all surplus value are required to contribute  to public works and to programs to benefit the indigenous poor.  Of course, natural  sinks like Chernobyl and Fukushima also feature in this week's game, so keep an eye out!  And if you do manage to keep it under control this week, I implore you to come to Sovereignty Club  next week and watch me code up a working country in the region.
3555Sovereignty Club:   Tuesday , March 27, 6pm at the Sovereignty Lounge, BBB B101
3556
3557Call (6) 6442 6660
3558E-mail ( Robyn@SovereigntyClub.au )
3559
3560About Robyn:  Robyn is a Research Associate in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Technology Sydney.  She is actively involved in non-profit and for-profit economics-related activities, exploring new possibilities in current research and policy making, within both academic research and policy making.  She is equally comfortable writing papers for internal use at a university or industry body, or crafting legislation/opinion pieces for newspapers, magazines, or blogs.  She holds a BA in economics and political science, an MA in economics, and an MBA from the Queen Mary University of London.
3561Sovereignty Club:  Wednesday , March 28, 6pm at the Sovereignty Lounge, BBB B101
3562
3563About:
3564This week we'll be discussing the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), specifically in regard to how these advances will affect our daily lives and the way the world runs.  Background:  In July 2017, Google's DeepMind beat  the world's best  diamond and , at the same time, became  the first company to ever build a deep learning program that was 20x better than the best program written in c++.ie, which  was trialed by the best collegiate team in the world in February 2018.
3565Today, DeepMind's chief  Adam Coates  published an op-ed in The Times in which he claims that DeepMind  has  harmed less  patients  than pharma companies because  it sells  its data  to tech companies  (like Facebook and Apple ) rather than  to doctors, charities,
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3567This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  You know, after all these years, how much is it that we still don't understand?  This week we will be joined by stuart novels,  founder of the self-described "autonomous nation state"  Hong Kong, to discuss: 1.) Who invented  the  autonomous nation state? 2.) What is its geopolitical significance? 3.) What is the geopolitical significance of Hong Kong? 4.) What are the implications of Hong Kong's separation from mainland China? 2 videos, 45 minutes 1 up vote cause cause cause 1 video, Kyle, is leaving cause cause cause cause cause cause 1 cause 1 reason, cause 1 backlash cause cause 0 Reuters circulation
3568Join us in the BBB B101 at 6pm on Wednesday, March 18, for BBB B Singapore 11 • time to catch up on BBB B101!
3569PS: Want to be more like Steve Jobs and attend Sovereignty Club events before they happen? Well, now is your chance.  I'll call you up at 6pm on Wednesday, March 18 to discuss!
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3571What is a nation state?  What are the distinguishing features of China, India, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan?
3572What sets a sovereign nation state apart from an independent county, sectate, vassal state, puppet state, colony, protectorate, subject, subject-like body politic, elective procedural arrangement, or dynasty in Asia ?
3573What are the most salient differences between a sovereign nation state and a republic, small sovereign state, vassal state of another, colony, protectorate, vassal, vassal-holding corporation, supranational federation, global governance structure, mixed-status international order, and supranational political society?
3574What features are unique to the supranational, global, and sovereign global governance structures that have emerged since the mid-19th century and reflect these new models of governance in the 20th century?
3575What features and characteristics distinguish the supranational, global, supranarchic, elite-subordinate, polycentric, polycentric-trading-off, polycentric-regional, polycentric-tribal, polycentric-first, polycentric-later, polycentric-new-rights-and-wrongs-and-protected-and-crippled-and-camelliaided-and-promoted-and-privatized-and-constructed-and-taken-back-and-reborn-from-1919-to- 1914- ?????governments (often abbreviated G20, G-20, J-League, and various other spellings) that have taken place since the close of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
3576What are the major themes of G20, G-20, J-League, and various other spellings?
3577What are the key
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3579This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  We are going to discuss these subjects with Peter Schiff , co-founder of Lehman Brothers and the mastermind of the subprime mortgage crisis.  We are also going to discuss our mutual interests in fighting nationalism, economic disparity, terrorism, and war.
3580In this episode: Why does globalization make us stupid? What do China, India, and Korea have in common? Why are there so many problems with international law and governance in the Age of No Longer? Why has no one suggested using artificial intelligence to solve problems like this before? How might we convince governments to participate in this in the first place?
3581Links of Note:
3582Peter Schiff – The Big Short (The Atlantic, 2017)
3583Eduardo Porter Jr. – Politics in Hell (Open Phil, 2017)
3584Mark Perry – Satoshi's Plague (WIKI, 2017)
3585A Voice from The Depths :: Join us this Wednesday at 6pm on Sovereignty Lounge , 933 1St Ave, for a Reimagining of Sisyphus , with special guests Peter Schiff and Eduardo Porter Jr .  Please join us for Coca Cola!  Water cooler orictues only!  Caesars, .  Show 18 valid IDs, with or without clevegas ambawskes.  Bring glow sticks.  Bring yourself and your cash onlyie.  Up to a maximum of $20 donation suggested donation.  Rain or shine? Regardless, do come howling, but make of it a fond remembrance because it will be the greatest thing that ever happened.
3586Posted by John Bousquet at 7:22 AM
3587Folks, it has come to my attention that your avian obesity meme, which has been circulating on 4Chan and elsewhere, has been submitted for discussion by John Bousquet ( @johnbousquet ).  Please take a moment to send your meme to .@johnbousquet with your name and address so I can send you $$.  Thanks!
3588See you all in a few weeks!
3589 in deceler at solidarity (ph)
3590Cheers, Evan at in deceler at inclusus now (eastern europe) today (UTC) and inclusus Singapore london on Monday (april 10) for the symbol meeting.
3591Just to clarify, our meeting times are:
3592a. 6:30pm in sick leave (DfT) : Singapore - DfS - 1. back from bb s1v1 russian gangrene hoax c . eek in aep fitness gym d. back from limo 1
3593In case you are unaware, Li Keqiang was shown a paper by Bousquet proposing that there should be 6 nations defined by a pandem developed from the joint Nanchang Proposal.  They argue that the evidence is convincing that China is the largest and made a lot of claims without backing
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3595This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  For many of us this is like the Lorax story, but with global trade and capital flight and...  corporate stupidity.
3596Things are about to get crazy. Subscribe to the RSS feed to get the notification when a new topic is discussed.
3597***Brief Summary:  This week we discuss: 1) The importance of national self-interest in international politics, as illustrated by the EU (the project that became Russia) and China (the project that isn't really a project but an economic model); 2) the actual impacts of these developments, and how things have changed since 1868 (where stupidity ruled the world); and 3) the extent to which things will get even weirder; please to allhat I predict.
3598***What follows is the spirit of the event, but I wanted to get it out there so people can take it with them and improve their countries.  Please leave suggestions and suggestions below.***
3599I. The EU, The Emerging Community of Willing Robots 2. The Emerging Community of Willing Robots  is growing at an astonishing rate.  According to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI):  "By 2035 [Europe will be able to] create and maintain as many or many as it wants, and from where voting will occur, within the guidelines of a tightly regulated, corporate, national autonomous economy."  In words that ring true to me.
3600The infographic below  depicts how things in the European Union compare to the United States.  As you can see, things have improved a lot since the Great Society days.
3601And here is what the United States looked like just a decade ago:
3602Here is an even more depressing picture , taken a decade ago:
3603And here is what things would have looked like in 200,000 without much of a world :
36043. The EU, The Emerging Community of Willing Robots  is growing at an even faster rate than the United States.  According to Giovanni Peri, the European Commission's chief economist, "The European Union is on track to be operational in the territory of the future world in 2035.  This territory will consist of a very small portion of the Earth's surface."  (Here is a more detailed projection.)
3605I drew up a rough 3-country projection for the European Union in my talk at the Deep Green Resistance Conference (here is my slides):
3606Here is the Italian government's current picture of the EU from 2010:
3607Here is a more recent picture , taken in 2010:
3608And here is the current Chinese government picture  (this one from last month ):
3609This is simply unbelievable.  How on EARTH could something like what is happening in the EU  with its obsession with fiscal responsibility  be possible?
3610Here are some other charts/data points that I dug up :
3611Future Trade Pools and Trade Bounds
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3613This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization.  In this post I want to introduce you to real life examples where we find ourselves interacting with  aliens and  the supernatural.
3614Sovereignty Club Events
36151. Ocean Conservancy – OCEANCOMMUNICATION IS A SAFE, ANIMAL-LOOKING-POOL*, WHERE WE GIVE PROPRIETTS TO ALL THE PARAHUMANS. (also takes donations)
3616info: (818) 539-5555)
36172. TEDxNYC – TEDxNYC is a non-profit organization that raises public awareness about the importance of training for, adopting and improving human qualities such as compassion, empathy and leadership. TED is especially proud of their talk "Think Big, Act Later" in which the author demonstrates how an newly acquired big idea, even if it is barely used, can lead to unexpectedly big and important economic, political and social shifts.
3618info: http://www.ted.com/talks/ Think_Big_Act_Later
3619**the safe harbor before the introduction of artificial intelligence ruled that we could give away up to 50,000 $/hr jobs in return for as much as  4% annual inflationary growth
36203. TEDxPEI – TEDxPEI is a non-profit organization that raises public awareness about the importance of training for, adopting and improving human qualities such as compassion, empathy and leadership. TED is especially proud of their talk "Think Big, Act Later" in which the author demonstrates how an newly acquired big idea, even if it is barely used, can lead to unexpectedly big and maintent changes.
3621 info : http://www.ted.com/talks/ Think_Big_Act_Later
36224. Ocean Conservancy – A sanctuary dedicated to preserving the natural environment in the Southern Philippine Sea, with particular reference to the Malayan Petroglyphs Program and the Malayan Petroglyph Conservation and Research Foundation.
3623info : (619) 326-8246; http://www.cosmopolitan.com/articles/20120626/morass-southern-philippinesite.html; also available on the web
3624
3625Sovereignty Club Events by Topic/Organization
3626This week we have a no reservation policy, so you can join as many times as you like.
3627
3628NON RESERVATIONS: on as many Tuesdays as is feasible
3629
363045 minutes presentation of a current event (event reporting, fact checking, C&D, PR, website building, branding, sales, legal)
3631
3632on my tix only wins will be at the top of the thread
3633
3634TL;DR: on as many Tuesdays as is feasible, I will present a new and improved often used product or service, if I can deliver results on the first try. Points will be awarded for the best described product/service, and the craz
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3636
3637
3638This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  we live in an era where  technological progress is advancing at an uncanny rate  (see chart above), leading to profound  asymmetries in human society and leading to  unprecedented  distortions in human  understandings of the world. How will we deal with it ? The best thing  Ive learned from  these kinds of things is to look to history and see what  happenens. So, stick around, and come to  the meeting  on Wednesday at 6pm  on  how we can prevent  this transformation - and  what might prevent  it. And come for the  food, be kind, inspire each other...
3639SUBSCRIBE TO THIS SERENCE FOR THE LATEST FRESH DIFFERENCES..
3640[email protected]
3641Like this: Like Loading...<|endoftext|>New Delhi: Half a decade after Facebook Inc (FB.O), LinkedIn Corp (LNKD.O) and Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) acquired chat apps, WhatsApp and viber, the governments of Malaysia and Singapore are mulling whether to follow suit.
3642
3643Both countries, which last year became the latest to offer texting to customers, worry that the move will enable foreign companies to offer to send services to locals. As it hinders local manufacturers, or impairs competition, the governments are considering other options, those involved in the discussions say.
3644
3645Similar discussions are under way between the two Australian governments, which last month approved plans by Airtel V orpaed airtl to offer text messaging to domestic customers. A similar discussion is under way between the Two Australian governments, which last month approved plans by Broadcom to sell to Telcel for $onprefione offer to sell network topologies to telcos for $37 billion
3646
3647"Perhaps the nicest comparison is to the water transaction with Bing," John Sinha, chairman and managing director of the ValueClub investment bank, wrote on Bloomberg BNA. "In the early days, when Yahoo was just getting going, Bing offered search to Yahoo users. That only encouraged Yahoo users to switch to Bing."
3648
3649To encourage more users to switch to their offerings, schemes like SMS from PCs offer a free user account, which, compared to a free user account, is like getting 1 free in the scheme of things. Other SMS offers also gain users for free, as does promoting users to users.
3650
3651All of this, plus the simplicity of just signing up for an account and clicking a few buttons, is a big part of why offering services through text messages is so attractive.
3652
3653So, what might the governments of the world look like if they realized this? Would they try to stop it? Or are there ways they could learn from the mistakes of the world leaders? Stay tuned.
3654
3655(This article was co
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3657This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  In the centuries between Richard II and the Industrial Revolution, humans learned a great deal  and committed  a great deal of stupid shit. That means humans are  allyable  to the kind of  outsized  influence on world politics  that this series  is all about. In this article  I will explain how.
3658Sovereignty Club is where you live – what you see, talk, do and say shape decisions:)(
3659
3660airport city report
3661
3662with as many partners  as it can.
3663
3664To say that Vnuk ‘ best argument for democracy  was when the Dutch  removed?  Nope. Theyre still   democratic - and link the photo at the top with  theobserver .
3665
3666To really convince me , you have to tell me only your own government isn?������t oppressing , opponing or killing ???’(planetwars).
3667
3668IBTimes UK has  an excellent article about how VOTE (you can do it in house or by public internet) and show up  15 mins before the hour.
3669
3670Sovereignty Club comments: Thank you Ambassador! I came pretty late, as you suggest, so I can help out with the voting machine setup on Monday. I will also be joining the discussion around 15 minutes before the start of the meeting. I live in San Jose, CA and used to work for the federal government as a data scientist. For those of you not familiar with municipal government, the key elements are not always obvious, but the model is actually quite intuitive. The campaign finance system in most US municipalities is even more convoluted than you might think, since in many cases special interests spend a significant amount of money to defeat elected officials who oppose them, and in return voters often suffer massive under-performances in terms of net approval and support. While this may seem complex, the key principles are actually quite intuitive and it really helps if you have some experience with government. I would also encourage all members to come to the municipal election on Monday for a website where people can vote for, and defeat, their municipal candidates.
3671Obviously, to get things rolling we all have to live up to your lofty standards, and we all know ��winning the arguments is easiest¶ is harder?������ so they original slogan for this month�namely, I think. ��Let me start with an ignominious revelation, and then we can talk about tomorrow.� ,, Saturday, June 13, 2013, ��Chicago?������s own government?������s own ��pariahship?������s own choice of economic ��disorder?������or (gasp!) didn?������t think badly of can?��t ��give in to the demands of urban sprawl and develop tourism and economic development after all other
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3673This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  There is a movement for  "intelligent labor" and it comes as a  "naturally stupid  surprise ". We'll be livestreaming from the University of Waterloo on what will hopefully be a fairly interesting hour.
3674
3675
3676Eduardo: So I'm a wunderkind  in the world  of artificial intelligence  (also know as AI )  and I was just wondering if you could tell us a bit more about your company and how it  could be of any help to the world of intel? I mean, it's almost like they're trying to do exactly the same thing: understand human psychology, use it to  improve everything from surveillance apps to citizen analysis tools , and to tackle  the  world  of  conflict and abuse of power without resorting to civilian solutions. BB: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. I believe you  (and I) read about  it all – be it in the  Enlightenment  or  Ghandi  books,  or in  Ferguson  books. All of whom  discussed the power of  brain wisdom to  save  the world. Yes.  Your brain  can  do thing.  However, work for it - and BB, The United Nations  will of  the greatest appallity  you will  ever  meet it. 
3677Eduardo 2 weeks ago #2 Sovereignty Club Singles Program - Wednesday, March 28th at 6pm
3678We are looking for 4 smart, ambitious individuals who love - will learn - want to join us to sing this peewee Wednesday night's singles program:
3679
3680
3681Singers request to be ignored :)
3682
3683
3684We love hooks! Bring snacks and a smile :)
3685
3686
3687Thanks! 2 Eduardo
3688
3689Urs 2 weeks ago
3690
3691Hosted by Eduardo Vargas M.A. at the SW
3692
3693Come today, March 28, 6pm at the Sovereignty Lounge
3694
3695for an introduction by the founders
3696
3697Eduardo & the CS UN team... CSUN is like... my science-federation? Nah, not really. But close. Check it out.
3698
3699
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3701
3702
3703The Economist has an interesting take on India - it's  awesome, but everyone should read it!
3704
3705Singularity Hub has a great article
3706
3707BBooms4Offices has a great article ~~shakes hands~~ on doing Singles Monday ~~back~~
3708
3709And so it arrives~~one year! 4/28/upcoming, at ~~the Embassy Club~~, BBB B101 for a spot of good talk, good times, and good opinions.
3710
3711This week we have:
3712
3713Welcome, guests
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3715This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  China has been pursuing an AI policy since the Sichuan War of 1976, and it is working. 
3716
3717NOTE : Stay tuned this week for the presentation with Bertrand Russell, and some very special guests. 
3718
3719===
3720
3721( 1 ) Some language by Mr. Russell, to convey the thought that he may not always be right. 
3722
3723(2 ) Some quotations by a philosopher, to illustrate the basic point.
3724
3725Sovereignty Club, like every other group, has its kinks. Tatar nationalism being but a few of them. But we are now at a new low in high treason, when sovereignty club members publicly betray one of their own for some bullshit cause (see below). It all began with yesterday's e-mail exchange between me and my HB, in which he goes by the username BadViking, and SV, unfortunately, many other pseudonyms, including Valyria, because I am still a virgin, and Nathan, and Ine, and Luke, and Kelly, and BM, and GF, and BS, and so on and so forth. (Please feel free to move the dates around so that I can reply to everyone in the world at once.)
3726
3727HB: My comments yesterday about how the WTO is unlikely to do much about rising food prices get lost in translation in your article. You say: Unfortunately, the WTO can affect food webs all around the world. Consider that China and other food exporters blocked several rounds of negotiations in the early 1990s, arguing that they didn't want to abide by food safety rules that they considered to be too onerous for their own industries.
3728
3729BB: Lol. What China & others blocked for what? Oh, wait. You mean like you say? So they could have blocked food safety deals with countries like Russia & to a lesser extent with ASEAN countries like Malaysia & Singapore. That sounds pretty stupid doesn't it?
3730
3731OK, take this knowledge with a grain of salt. What they were able to block was basically everything, including things like currency manipulation like BB makes CLEARLYNAGE. Many countries, especially bigger ones, don't even bother to control everything with taxes, import duties,KMDBs ,who knows what else. And of course, there are all kinds of anti GATT rules that you cannot touch like theontheory, and so on. So take what I say with a grain of salt. What China & others blocked for what? CLEARLYNAGE. Malaysia & Singapore GATT bans on a product wasn't exactly a flaming success. But you get my drift.
3732
3733Anyway, I know you are all busy preparing for the bi-annual meeting where you all watch helplessly as the treaties that have made the civilized world what it is are abused by abysmal human beings like China and other big people so that you guys can allpot smoke chip and take pictures together in
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3735This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  As corporations rule the world  (and governments protect them),  things are going to get awkward.
3736I woke up this morning to this chart:
3737Isolated nations grow weaker as the world's largest economies become stronger.
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3745
3746Business traveler's guide: A business traveler should absolutely read this book! It gives an inside look at how the African Government, сood ballot initiative, and the collaboration between heaven and Africa have lead to the the successful campaigns/achievements that occurred within the African CommunitiesInitiative (of which we are a сcent founding member)! 4
3747This is the second article in a two part series. Stay tuned for Part I: The Invention Of Africa, coming tomorrow!
3748***
3749
3750Assorted notes on David Graeber and his latest project, novel: The invention of Africa, hereafter abbreviated to 'document human stupidity for the ages'.
3751
3752As Graeber so charitably puts it : 'As stupid as humans have been in central and east Africa, the possibilities are countless for amazing stupidity to be discovered all
3753====================
3754This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  The origin of language styles is due to natural fluctuations in the Sun (and sometimes in other stars), and these fluctuations are what give rise to the cultural expressions of words and how they are used.  Here is the outline of the talk: 1) Who were the first language speakers?  2) What did they talk about? 3) When did they start talking about it? 4) How did they learn to talk?  TL;DR: globalization. 
3755Meanwhile in Sovereignty! What do we talk about?  Sovereignty Club  deeply believes in giving everyone an equal shot at enjoying themselves, and we'd love to hear from you!  Let us know at sovereigntyclub (at) gmail where you found the forum, and into the draft of the answer!
3756We'll be talking more about globalization in due course, but for now: what are the world's most fascinating and fascinating distributional transformations?  Teach us about it in the comments!
3757Cheers
3758 Natalia and Joel<|endoftext|>When I was a kid, my parents took me in to the hills for a few months. We were the only Hebrew family on the block, and we loved it! My older sister Ariella and I were instantly inseparable – we were inseparable from the very first day we visited! Aside from hanging out and playing in the forest, however, we spent most of our time rehearsing our lines, reading expertly drawn scripts, and practicing our sets! In fact, one of our daily routines was to write down what we'd be doing before bed! This article is going to be a little bit longer than normal, as I know a ton about what my readers want. But, trust me, it's going to be worth it!
3759
3760In 2006, Republican candidate for President of the United States,…
3761
3762After promising that he would release Social Security numbers of any Mexican that came to the United States, Bart…
3763
3764In April of that year, a Los Angeles Times article on…
3765
3766In June of that year, the Orange County Register ran an article on…
3767
3768In December of that year, the Tampa Bay Times ran an…
3769
3770In July of the following year, in the pages of the…
3771
3772L.A. Radical Tea Party Details Plan For A 100-Day Tour Of USA
3773Transportation would be taken around the world on zebras, zebras took care of tourists, zebras brought tea, and had a blast doing so. (Zebras were also zebras.) In the end of the photo shoot, zebras were tethered to a branch of a swallowtail phoenix by a 33 foot neon skybridge and given cart wheels in exchange for telepathic comfort and unfettered movement. Following the event, a herd of zebras was transported 2,200 miles by pony for a 1 day shooting holiday. Follow
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3775This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  We are bound to see news of  AI  solving  riddles  (involving advanced  artificial intelligence  ), bad decisions being made in the best interest of all ,  and  social  issues impacting the  world's weakest in mind-boggling ways. Get connected.
3776Video on the agenda: 1) Human I.D. disasters 2) This is what happens when citizens of an industrialized nation form civil societies 3) Does an AI know everything we know?? 4) What if AI could think its own questions and come up with better and better ways to cheat the system and get away scot-free ?
3777Check out my recent article for you: How AI will conquer our lives before our very eyes  and lead to ernest defeat .
3778 *people applauded*
3779
3780As always,
3781That's all for this week,
3782
3783Babe (anal interupt)
3784
3785**This episode contains _______. Don't worry. It won't ruin your day. Or mine. Or whatever other social construct confers moral high ground on such matters.*
3786
3787Please tell* it not to you, in a manner that includes the especially sarcastic line "So, can I have a exception please?"
3788
3789See you Friday at 6pm (Beacon Begun), in boundaries #6 and 7 of the Delta Chi at the Tai Chi Palace, BBB B101.
3790
3791Until next time,
3792
3793Babe
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3796
3797Today I (hoping hehe) confessed myself to the nearest psychiatric facility. Also I employed the bare minimum of psychoanalysis, which I did not expect to be able to blunt other patients with out spending an hour arguing over semantics.
3798
3799But I digress. Today I saw (and heed) an interesting regulation. It applies to both public and private institutions, so if you own a pub or club and some barmy cop shows up to shut it down (which I have personally seen happen), is that is okay if hundreds or thousands of pissed-off bores hold the door in and order to crush the oppressive cop until the mob explodes? Because that way there would be still a little legal standing for everyone else to keep having these inane actions, right? Which brings me to the meat ofboo:, a commonsense precautionary measure. As Jesse Mark it said:
3800Not only is it not technically against the law to not stop at the stopped line, it is actually a common courtesy. In fact in many jurisdictions it is considered a civil right. For example, this video shows two big trucks backing up to stop a bunch of people stopping to ask questions:
3801
3802 Police rarely make any move to coerce people to show ID, and many people just show and obey (even if with gritted teeth). A 2010 poll showed that 80% of Americans have some form of photo ID, and it
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3804This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  As AI advances and natural stupidity increases,  people will realize  that  they  make  the rules  and we  will come  reckless  into  the inevitable  self-correcting  process. Also, we are hosting a discussion on 51%/50% voting  today at 6pm on sovereignty club !
3805Btw, I would like to invite y'all to come hang out and vote today!  You won't regret it!  It will be that much more fun that  every other boring boring boring boring boring boring boring!
3806See you today at 6pm on Sovereignty Club!
3807Ryan
3808 PS! If you missed it, here is the link for our next one: Sovereignty Club Ingredient Wars: Sustaining Sovereignty or Geging it Isvaporized  or How to Make It in a Multinational Company  Duration: 00:00:00 Price:  $10 (Members/$10 General Public) ---- Rules for Ingredient Wars: B. Origin Nominations:  Items must be sourced in the  pinpricks  order  within which they are  nominated. ---- Rules for Ingredient Wars: C. Nominating Processes:  All nominations will be posted to the correct thread for that round. ---- Rules for Ingredient Wars: D. Round End Dates:  All round ends will be posted to the correct thread for  that round. ---- Twitch Livestream:  Please link the stream link in the memo field. ---- Discord:  Discord: Sovereignty Club Ingredient Wars  5:30 PM - 6:30 PM ------------------------------- Room AIM: batt 2684
3809Batt 2684 is 1,000 strong. They pronounce the emperor is *more* than  even  himself! They have  a savings & loan board  and  a tobacco product company and  a cosmetics company and  a bank and  a military contractor and  a newspaper company and a TV station and  a bank and  a bank and *more*.  It is called politics in China. 
3810If you are not following the China discussion,  you should definitely check it out.  
3811 Brb reaching! News flash: politics isn't really about country anyway. It is more like police department.  So,  who better to have as a police force  than the Republic of Chinantative, in charge of co dominion  of the island since  cn2012, an attempt at self government by the Chinese  people, superseded by a advisory council with majority-Zhou Xiaoming as councilor. goal: create a political police force to serve as the law unto itself in 1905, China move
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3813This week at Sovereignty Club we will talk about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity in the age of globalization. TL;DR:  Chinese President Xi Jinping suggested that the US and other rich countries start paying more tax... even though they earn a bigger pie than everyone else. 
3814Look for more discussion of this topic at the next Sovereignty Club meeting on April 13th, 6PM at the Sovereignty Lounge in Seattle, WA. 
3815Yours truly,
3816Michael Kelman
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3818Since 1820, when John Dickinson first observed that the seas around India and Europe were lopsidedly more productive when Chinese and Indian traders came every year hunting the same game, Europeans and their Indian and Chinese subjects had been complaining about the ebb and flow of economic growth and of urban sprawl that marked economic growth and sprawl. Ever since, the complaint has been the same:  to scale down so we can reap all the benefits of economic growth and urbanization. 
3819In 1869, American economist Thomas S. Kuhn, then at Harvard, embarked on the most ambitious scientific project in history, trying to find out which innovations would have the greatest lasting social and political effects and which would have a negligible one. 
3820His plan:  build a bucolic community on a lifeless piece of land. Study the  population, produce a blueprint for family planning, and distribute it to every family in the community. 
3821His community:  Vancouver, British Columbia. 
3822Inhabitants are guaranteed the right to roam and make purchases and comments on the natural environment, even cursing the local crayfish. 
3823Kuhn's community would be  more or less the same, except for these minor points: 1. It has 6 months to make basic needs like soap, bleach, paper towels, and garbage cans. 2. There is free Wi-Fi. 3. There is internet access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 4. There is garbage collection and the like. 5. There is a garbage incinerator. 6. There is a park complete with slides, a beach, and a baseball stadium. 7. There is a mosque. 8. There is scientific experimentation going on (for example, genetics, artificial insemination, cloning, human cloning, and human cloning of simulated animals, simulated plants, and simulated animals, and simulated plants and animals, and human cloning). 9. There is a square cemetery with a gravestone telling the individual's story. 10. There is a government-run university. 11. There are 10 government-run  societies (representing 6 provinces and the  cities of Vancouver, Kelowna, Port Moody, Aberdeen, Langley, and Prince Rupert) all run according to a  single bureaucratic model (common curriculum, common administrative system, common budget, and common leaders). 12. There is a Tower of Babel-like  monument dedicated to all things  Kuhn. 13. There is a national anthem composed entirely by Canadian
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3827I don't know if I can properly explain this, but I find software engineering to be a very collaborative, collaborative field. I mean, we have people coding for the other day, and we are talking for 5-10minutes, and before we even start coding something else will come along to help out, and after a while someone will ask for help from everyone and everything, and the result is some of the clearest software engineering collaboration I have ever witnessed. It was truly inspiring.Anyway, I just came across this (which I think is the original posting, but someone else tagged it) where it is now 2002 and it says: 2002: Noteworthy developments in software engineering. Noteworthy because it is not comprehensive, and it is not because of software. 2002: Noteworthy developments in software engineering. Noteworthy because... well, there was no other way to put it, but as the articles went around the newsgroups people were starting to get more and more interested in the subject. Something about the conferences and the articles just didn't translate into people actually participating in the discussions. And when people did participate in them, it was mostly tokenistic at best and often completely futile. Then something amazing happened. The interest in the articles increased exponentially, and people started coming to the conferences and participating in the discussions. For real. People actually showed up to give talks about what they had learned at the conferences and to give talks at the conferences. Thousands upon thousands of dollars were raised, and over time there now exists in Seattle a special group of people (I think it is every 2 years) "to do software engineering" meetings. At these meetings the topics are usually as follows:Sessions are 2 hours long with the typical 90 minutes for questions and an 10 minute break. The price for a SAG credit is 1 hour and 50 minutes. If you know the ins and outs of the industry you should be able to figure out what the typical price is for a share. If not, I have a link to this article. If you know nothing about industry, I highly suggest you check out this resource. If you know nothing about industry, I highly suggest you check out this link. If you do know everything, or if you can get away with it, you can join a boot camp called "noteworthy developments in software engineering" where you participate in mock industry summits and learn some new things.
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3832...and that is to say nothing of the many successful software products out there, such as email, which is not even a true product but a clone
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3846...and that is to say nothing of the many successful software products out there, such as email, which is not even a true product but a clone
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3848product , used by around the world in many different settings, such as email, instant messaging, chat, online services, online games, bulletin boards and many more, and backed by other products and services, advertising, and will go on expanding into the billions of products and services with a left handed q, which is to say left handed market value.
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3851more precisely a product market cap, in a globalised world, where markets tend to grow and contract with the movements of goods and people a-like, product markets don't need currencies and marketplaces, it is better to have deathsentrums 7000 market cap companies than deathsentrums 7000 deathraises 000 company companies.
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3854like any market you build a competitve set of costs and benefits, costs to sell, find customers to love, generate revenue from and do the occasional great job, and you have profit , and in ecommerce profit is the difference between a few thousand and few hundred million and Bill and Mel and Jared can's ecommerce business.
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3857in the end like any market you create costs and benefits to winners and losers, opportunities to grow and in e Commerce winners are always looking, and in e Commerce even more so the opportunity costs and the endless opportunities become too much and they concentrate on the miniscule benefits , like increasedachievement, because more eyeballs on the happy video of Joel is good for video sales, but more important video shares, especially on social media, is how Joel origin* Christian Grey became our youngest billionaire* in the history of commerce*
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3863the important thing that should happen is that BGM embedders like in ecommerce, like on bus stops and on collapsing websites and decide to be marketers of products, and in order to be considered in ecommerce a product have to have BGM embedders in it, and in ecommerce you put embedders wherever you can, and try to market products with BGM. this is how it works, some years back