Dwarkesh Podcast / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
Evidence policy
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Claim ledger
12 published records
01 / belief
“I agree with the mechanism by which the growth happened, but I don't think it's the case that it was their inability to have true Marxist communism which led to liberalization.”
02 / uncertainty
“Is Xi Jinping a true believer? That's a difficult argument to win because the evidence is contradictory and because we don't know the inside of the system.”
03 / evaluation
“Because those people who were killing under communism and collectivizing those villages and dekulakizing and killing the people in their native village that they had grown up with… If they hadn't done that, the regime couldn't have done this.”
04 / evaluation
“The driver of your car works for Stalin, doesn't work for you, and is reporting any overheard conversations in the car.”
05 / evaluation
“It needs to be able to compete in the international system. That means it needs a modern military and modern industry to underwrite that modern military.”
06 / evaluation
“The only reason China has Hong Kong is because after World War II—when Truman announced that Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists were going to accept the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong—the British sent their boats in and took Hong Kong back themselves, so that when Mao defeated Chiang Kai-shek he didn't have Hong Kong.”
07 / evaluation
“He's a complete idiot in terms of facts, because the way to get more affordable housing is to build more housing.”
08 / recommendation
“We have to accept private property, markets, capitalism, and parliaments because that's the only way to get to freedom.”
09 / commitment
“I agree with your general point that how any nation gets wealthy is not by the government but because of the thrift and entrepreneurialism and hard work of individuals.”
10 / commitment
“I'm just saying that we have to take ideology seriously because it's deep and it can be enduring even in the face of empirical reality.”
11 / observation
“In many of these cases, there's this period in between when they're a dead man walking—because Stalin has started putting the feelers out that this person is a Trotskyite or something—but they're still in their positions of power.”
12 / evaluation
“The beauty of Marxism-Leninism, and why what we used to call the Third World loves this, is that they get to be in power.”