We killed a million Iraqis, but Iraq seems to be doing alright... Wow dude.

And why are they famished? Could it be because of US sanctions and embargoes?

You can't blame America for every single problem people suffer. Cuba was also embargoed and managed to pull off a medical system with a lower infant mortality rate than the USA, and as far as I know nobody starved there to the degree they did in Venezuela.

USA sanctions means Venezuela can't be a Petrostate, that's it. There's nothing stopping the government from organizing state industries in agriculture and mineral extraction as well as distribution to build a hyper localized economy. Hell, they're supposed to be communists, this is supposed to be the whole thing they're meant to be doing anyway.

The state of Venezuela is mostly the fault of Maduro's failed governance, and some of the responsibility lays also on the heads of Venezuelans. I personally believe to pretend it's all America's fault is to engage in a prejudice of low expectations.

As Trump said, Venezuela was not pumping it's oil out of the ground at a high rate. Venezuela has the largest known oil reserves.

Trump is risking organized human life by helping accelerate global warming and ecological collapse.

This is not a good outcome for the world.

Are you a religious person? Because you are talking about progress like it has nothing to do with powerful people making decisions for everyone. You make it sound spiritual and outside human decision-making.

Explain how I make it sound more spiritual and outside human decision making.

It is outside individual human decision making in a way, but I never said this and I never said anything about spirits or religion.

> What’s happening with AI today was an inevitability. There’s no one to blame here. Human progress would eventually cross this line.

That's literally taking human agency out of the equation. None of this is inevitable and none of it has to be this way. There is not fate here, no divine power, no invisible hand of the market. People made the decisions of what to make, how to make it, and how to distribute it. You can actually find someone to blame for every one of these choices.

It is inevitable. The AI of today is from the massive contributions of thousands and thousands of people. Each change was incremental and none of those people did their contribution with the intent of harming anyone.

The individual has agency but the collective does not. Think of it this way, how can you stop the collective technological progress of humanity? Who is to blame for that?

Google published a post gloating on how much consumerism it increased.

Just for comparison, China is spending $20-$30 billion a year on nuclear with 29 power plants under construction (half of world total under construction). While this $80 billion will fund about 5?

Large construction projects of any kind in the US are really expensive.

It does make one wonder if our gdp is as high as we think. Maybe our PPP estimates are overstated due to the reserve currency status.

Anecdotally have some relatives that worked in nuclear industry in USA and have gone on to consulting for the Chinese due to opportunities being too few and far between here in the USA.

The stats are abysmal. What's the MDD compared to S&P 500. What is the Sortino? What are the confidence intervals for all the stats? Number of trades? So many questions....