Robert Wright: belief

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…... but that's okay. It is. It... Then explain to me what is so radical and crazy about what I'm saying. Now, if you don't accept my premises, if you think, "No, I, I think you're, um, I think you're wrong. I think China is ideologically devoted to turning the entire world into a giant authoritarian autocracy," great, I'm happy to have that argument. My... One of my big frustrations with the current dialogue, especially in the context of AI, is that the important debates aren't being had, right? Like, well, do chip controls make it more likely that China will invade Taiwan? There's just not, not enough discussion of things. And, uh, so- So I think, like, doing what you describe, I'm intuitively certainly mostly in favor. I mean, I, I remember first learning about Iran's, you know, however many decades of recent history and understanding the role that the United States had played in that and being like, "Well, no wonder they hate our guts." Like, it's really-…

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