Sounds like China is run like an American department store chain, with regional managers going around checking on store managers to make sure what they're doing is on the up and up, and promoting within the ranks, etc.
Watching this 1 year later. Hsu was way off. Overestimated Russian tech and their ability to wage war. Like all experts during the Cold War. Way over estimated Russian capabilities
@@killa3xSort of. I agree that the Russian military has shown itself to be less formidable than initially projected. But I think the big takeaway from that war is that for a prolonged convention land invasion apparently artillery is still king. And the ability for NATO (read: United States) to manufacture and transport basic military supplies like artillery shells was also exposed, and that’s before we get into cost per shell - from one report I saw it was something like $5000-$6000 per 155mm shell for western countries vs $600 per 152mm shell for Russia.
Watching this in 2023. Hsu way over estimated Russian tech. Those bums couldn't even take on Ukraine that was being supplied low level US tech. US didn't even give them their top tier shit and they winning.
You got it wrong. Ukraine is getting plastered and losing very high casualties. Western propaganda shamefully is telling the opposite story. Scott Ritter and D. Macgregor, are the people to listen to.
I find the last conversation very unsettling. Not because I am in principle against eugenics - I am for it - but having another person carry your child so that “you don’t mess up your body”. That sounds extremely technocratic and dystopian. Surely a part of motherhood is going through the pregnancy. Sometimes I just wish to revolt against the modern world and burn it all down.
@@christophercollins9751 No. I said what I said. I don't mind eugenics. Most people don't. They just don't like the word because it creates flashback to WW2. Most people abort fetuses with Downs Syndrome or other malformities. That is eugenics. I support it.
@@johanneswestman935 I think you might be being a little bit optimistic about that. An awful lot of people would say things like "but genes don't have anything to do with human well-being" or "but what if we accidentally make people worse off in ways we hadn't foreseen?" Remember, this stuff isn't getting publicized the way it ought to be. Field-relevant experts and curious amateurs know what they know, but that can't become public opinion or public policy unless the institutions suddenly decide to cooperate.
@@OptimalOwl I put no value in the opinions of the masses of people. They are sacks of potatoes that can be swayed in one direction or the other by simply turning up the propaganda. Everyone is an eugenicist at heart. We marry and have children with the most attractive, successful and smartest person that we can find. Eugenics is simply being conscious of Darwinian evolution.
Read Intellectuals and Society sometime, by Thomas Sowell. There's no penalty for incorrect predictions like there would be for an engineer who built a faulty bridge, so there's no sorting mechanism that keeps people from making stupid predictions about things that are outside of their lane. You wouldn't trust a physicist to be your physician and vice versa, but that doesn't stop a physicist from commenting on public health policy. They're always right in their own field so surely that translates to every other aspect of the world.
This is truly an OUTSTANDING interview -- fast, informative, credible, thoughtful -- I learned a lot. Congratulations to both !!!
excellent interview
Ok, I think I may have just found my favorite new podcast. Subbed.
this guy is super interesting. We should be hearing a lot more from hi!
can also recommend his interviews with james miller and (the reupload exists on youtube, just checked) molyneux
I am sad that our country is in such a decline.
stop putting neocons in power then
In the mean time Russia has proved in Ukraine that the Kremlin is not so powerful as previously thought.
Sounds like China is run like an American department store chain, with regional managers going around checking on store managers to make sure what they're doing is on the up and up, and promoting within the ranks, etc.
very insightful!
Great interview!
hsu's foreign policy thoughts are surprisingly solid
Watching this 1 year later. Hsu was way off. Overestimated Russian tech and their ability to wage war. Like all experts during the Cold War. Way over estimated Russian capabilities
@@killa3xSort of. I agree that the Russian military has shown itself to be less formidable than initially projected. But I think the big takeaway from that war is that for a prolonged convention land invasion apparently artillery is still king. And the ability for NATO (read: United States) to manufacture and transport basic military supplies like artillery shells was also exposed, and that’s before we get into cost per shell - from one report I saw it was something like $5000-$6000 per 155mm shell for western countries vs $600 per 152mm shell for Russia.
Well, that's depressing.
Richard bro - get a haircut; chill out a bit further back from the camera; wear a collared shirt.
Interesting conversation. The part about Russia didn't age very well...but interesting nonetheless.
From everything between Russian military tech, to hypersonics, to the chinese economy this aged so terribly that it could almost been seen as parody
Did your cat scratch you for Valentines Day?
Is that what happened? Poor fella
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Watching this in 2023. Hsu way over estimated Russian tech. Those bums couldn't even take on Ukraine that was being supplied low level US tech. US didn't even give them their top tier shit and they winning.
You got it wrong. Ukraine is getting plastered and losing very high casualties. Western propaganda shamefully is telling the opposite story. Scott Ritter and D. Macgregor, are the people to listen to.
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Stop interrupting Steve!
I find the last conversation very unsettling. Not because I am in principle against eugenics - I am for it - but having another person carry your child so that “you don’t mess up your body”. That sounds extremely technocratic and dystopian. Surely a part of motherhood is going through the pregnancy. Sometimes I just wish to revolt against the modern world and burn it all down.
People cutting out fundamental parts of the human experience so they can spend more time working.
Gotta grow that GDP, right?
I think you meant "IVF", not "eugenics"!
@@christophercollins9751 No. I said what I said. I don't mind eugenics. Most people don't. They just don't like the word because it creates flashback to WW2. Most people abort fetuses with Downs Syndrome or other malformities. That is eugenics. I support it.
@@johanneswestman935 I think you might be being a little bit optimistic about that. An awful lot of people would say things like "but genes don't have anything to do with human well-being" or "but what if we accidentally make people worse off in ways we hadn't foreseen?"
Remember, this stuff isn't getting publicized the way it ought to be. Field-relevant experts and curious amateurs know what they know, but that can't become public opinion or public policy unless the institutions suddenly decide to cooperate.
@@OptimalOwl I put no value in the opinions of the masses of people. They are sacks of potatoes that can be swayed in one direction or the other by simply turning up the propaganda.
Everyone is an eugenicist at heart. We marry and have children with the most attractive, successful and smartest person that we can find. Eugenics is simply being conscious of Darwinian evolution.
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It’s amazing how this smart guy is so wrong. In retrospect even a year later.
Read Intellectuals and Society sometime, by Thomas Sowell. There's no penalty for incorrect predictions like there would be for an engineer who built a faulty bridge, so there's no sorting mechanism that keeps people from making stupid predictions about things that are outside of their lane. You wouldn't trust a physicist to be your physician and vice versa, but that doesn't stop a physicist from commenting on public health policy. They're always right in their own field so surely that translates to every other aspect of the world.
This didn't age well