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Har hørt mye på Sam Harris i det siste. Han har en podcast der han inviterer mange prominente og interessante mennesker til siviliserte samtaler. Her er så mye bra samlet på en plass at det er nesten underlig bra. Og hans platform og format, der han slipper folk til for å snakke om ting de har greie på, stilles intelligente spørsmål, litt uenighet men han tilstreber at det i så liten grad som mulig skal bli en debatt der det handler om å vinne. Samtaler er greiere slik, de skal ikke vinnes men er berikende. De er grundige og interessant og tar opp svært vesentlige og aktuelle tema.
Jeg lager her en liste over dem. Vet ikke om jeg tar med alt, men i alle fall nok til at folk kan se hva det snakkes om og hvem det snakkes med. Anbefaler at man tar dem for seg omvendt kronologisk, da de siste jo er mest oppdaterte på hendelser og utvikling, og også fordi formatet har modnet mye fra den spede begynnelse.
On Becoming a Better Person
A Conversation with David Brooks
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/on-becoming-a-better-person
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with David Brooks about his book The Road to Character, the importance of words like “sin” and “virtue,” self-esteem vs. self-overcoming, the significance of keeping promises, honesty, President Trump, and other topics.
David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and appears regularly on the PBS NewsHour and Meet the Press. He is the bestselling author of The Social Animal, Bobos in Paradise, and The Road to Character.
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Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea?
A Conversation with Mark Bowden
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/must-we-accept-a-nuclear-north-korea
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Mark Bowden about the problem of a nuclear-armed North Korea.
Mark Bowden is the author of thirteen books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down. He reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and other magazines. He is also the writer in residence at the University of Delaware. His most recent book is Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam.
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Triggered
A Conversation with Scott Adams
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/triggered
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris and Scott Adams debate the character and competence of President Trump.
Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He has been a full-time cartoonist since 1995, after 16 years as a technology worker for companies like Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell. His many bestsellers include The Dilbert Principle, Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook, and How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big. He forthcoming book is Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter.
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From Cells to Cities
A Conversation with Geoffrey West
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey West about how biological and social systems scale, the significance of fractals, the prospects of radically extending human life, the concept of “emergence” in complex systems, the importance of cities, the necessity for continuous innovation, and other topics.
Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics and biology. He is a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a distinguished professor at the Sante Fe Institute, where he served as the president from 2005-2009. In 2006 he was named to Time’s list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.” He is the author of Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies.
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Is this the End of Europe?
A Conversation with Douglas Murray
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/is-this-the-end-of-europe
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam.
Douglas Murray is Associate Editor of the Spectator and writes frequently for a variety of other publications, including the Sunday Times, Standpoint and the Wall Street Journal. He has also given talks at both the British and European Parliaments and at the White House. He is the author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam.
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Landscapes of Mind
A Conversation with Kevin Kelly
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/landscapes-of-mind
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Kevin Kelly about why it’s so hard to predict future technology, the nature of intelligence, the “singularity,” artificial consciousness, and other topics.
Kevin Kelly helped launch Wired magazine and was its executive editor for its first seven years. He has written for The New York Times, The Economist, Science, Time, and The Wall Street Journal among many other publications. His previous books include Out of Control, New Rules for the New Economy, Cool Tools, and What Technology Wants. His most recent book is The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.
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The Politics of Emergency
A Conversation with Fareed Zakaria
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-politics-of-emergency
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Fareed Zakaria about his career as a journalist, Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations,” political partisanship, Trump, the health of the news media, the connection between Islam and intolerance, and other topics.
Fareed Zakaria is host of CNN’s flagship international affairs program — Fareed Zakaria GPS — a Washington Post columnist, a contributing editor at The Atlantic and a New York Times bestselling author. He was described in 1999 by Esquire Magazine as “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.” In 2010, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 global thinkers. He is the author of The Future of Freedom, The Post-American World, and In Defense of a Liberal Education.
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The End of the World According to ISIS
A Conversation with Graeme Wood
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-end-of-the-world-according-to-isis
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Graeme Wood about his experience reporting on ISIS, the myth of online recruitment, the theology of ISIS, the quality of its propaganda, the most important American recruit to the organization, the roles of Jesus and the Anti-Christ in Islamic prophecy, free speech and the ongoing threat of jihadism, and other topics.
Graeme Wood is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many other publications. He was the 2014–2015 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and he teaches in the political science department at Yale University. He is the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.
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Leaving Islam
A Conversation with Sarah Haider
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/leaving-islam
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Sarah Haider about her organization Ex-Muslims of North America, how the political Left is confused about Islam, “rape culture” under Islam, honesty without bigotry, stealth theocracy, immigration, the prospects of reforming Islam, and other topics.
Sarah Haider is the co-founder of the Ex-Muslims of North America.
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The Road to Tyranny
A Conversation with Timothy Snyder
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-road-to-tyranny
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Timothy Snyder about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He has spent some ten years in Europe, and speaks five and reads ten European languages. He has also written for The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, and The New Republic as well as for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and other newspapers. He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of several award-winning books including The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. His latest book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction.
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Persuasion and Control
A Conversation with Zeynep Tufekci
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/persuasion-and-control
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Zeynep Tufekci about “surveillance capitalism,” the Trump campaign’s use of Facebook, AI-enabled marketing, the health of the press, Wikileaks, ransomware attacks, and other topics.
Zeynep Tufekci is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, and a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is the author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest.
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The Moral Complexity of Genetics
A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-moral-complexity-of-genetics
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the human desire to understand and manipulate heredity, the genius of Gregor Mendel, the ethics of altering our genes, the future of genetic medicine, patent issues in genetic research, controversies about race and intelligence, and other topics.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford (where he received a PhD studying cancer-causing viruses) and from Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on discovering new cancer drugs using innovative biological methods. He has published articles and commentary in such journals as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron and the Journal of Clinical Investigation and in publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New Republic. His work was nominated for Best American Science Writing, 2000. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. His most recent book is The Gene: An Intimate History.
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What Should We Eat?
A Conversation with Gary Taubes
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-should-we-eat
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Gary Taubes about his career as a science journalist, the difficulty of studying nutrition and public health, the growing epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the role that hormones play in weight gain, the controversies surrounding his work, and other topics.
Gary Taubes is the author of Why We Get Fat; Good Calories, Bad Calories; and The Case Against Sugar. He is a former staff writer for Discover and a correspondent for the journal Science. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous “Best of” anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and a co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI).
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Forbidden Knowledge
A Conversation with Charles Murray
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/forbidden-knowledge
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Charles Murray about the controversy over his book The Bell Curve, the validity and significance of IQ as a measure of intelligence, the problem of social stratification, the rise of Trump, universal basic income, and other topics.
Charles Murray is a political scientist and author. His 1994 New York Times bestseller, The Bell Curve (coauthored with the late Richard J. Herrnstein), sparked heated controversy for its analysis of the role of IQ in shaping America’s class structure. Murray’s other books include What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, and In Our Hands. His 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 describes an unprecedented divergence in American classes over the last half century.
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Privacy and Security
A Conversation with Gen. Michael V. Hayden
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/privacy-and-security
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with General Michael V. Hayden about the reality of spying, the difference between the NSA and the CIA, the ethics of secrecy, Edward Snowden, the Russian Hacking of the 2016 US Presidential election, and other topics.
Michael Hayden is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group, a security consultancy founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Hayden also serves as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason University School of Public Policy. He is the author of Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.
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What is Technology Doing to Us?
A Conversation with Tristan Harris
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-technology-doing-to-us
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad-based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics.
Tristan Harris has been called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine. He was the Design Ethicist at Google and left the company to lead Time Well Spent, where he focuses on how better incentives and design practices can create a world that helps us spend our time well. Harris’s work has been featured on 60 Minutes and the PBS NewsHour, and in many journals, websites, and conferences, including: The Atlantic, ReCode, TED, the Economist, Wired, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, and the New York Review of Books. He was rated #16 in Inc Magazine’s “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30” in 2009 and holds several patents from his work at Apple, Wikia, Apture and Google. Harris graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Computer Science.
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Beauty and Terror
A Conversation with Lawrence Krauss
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/beauty-and-terror
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with physicist Lawrence Krauss about the utility of public debates, the progress of science, confusion about the role of consciousness in quantum mechanics, the present danger of nuclear war, the Trump administration, the relative threats of Christian theocracy and Islamism, and realistic fears about terrorism.
Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and the director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and nine books, including the international bestsellers, A Universe from Nothing and The Physics of Star Trek. The recipient of numerous awards, Krauss is a regular columnist for newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, and he appears frequently on radio, television, and in feature films. His most recent book is The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
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Reality and the Imagination
A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/meaning-and-chaos
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson discuss science, religion, archetypes, mythology, and the perennial problem of finding meaning in life.GGjestemedlem
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How many noted the implications of the European Court of Justice ruling on Internet copyright three years ago?
The European Court of Justice (the ECJ, “the European Supreme Court”) ruled three years ago that anything published openly on the web may be freely reused by anyone in any way on their own website. This ruling didn’t get anywhere near the attention it deserved, as it completely reverses a common misconception – the idea that you can’t republish or reuse something you happen to come across. The ECJ says that an open publication on the web exhausts the exclusivity of a work as far as the web is concerned, and that further authorization or permission from the rightsholder is not required for any reuse on the web after that, commercial or not.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.c...ruling-on-internet-copyright-three-years-ago/
Hovedartikkel i seneste The Atlantic: How America Went Haywire.
I first noticed our national lurch toward fantasy in 2004, after President George W. Bush’s political mastermind, Karl Rove, came up with the remarkable phrase reality-based community.
People in “the reality-based community,” he told a reporter, “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality … That’s not the way the world really works anymore.”
A year later, The Colbert Report went on the air. In the first few minutes of the first episode, Stephen Colbert, playing his right-wing-populist commentator character, performed a feature called “The Word.”
His first selection: truthiness. “Now, I’m sure some of the ‘word police,’ the ‘wordinistas’ over at Webster’s, are gonna say, ‘Hey, that’s not a word!’ Well, anybody who knows me knows that I’m no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They’re elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn’t true. Or what did or didn’t happen. Who’s Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914? If I wanna say it happened in 1941, that’s my right. I don’t trust books—they’re all fact, no heart … Face it, folks, we are a divided nation … divided between those who think with their head and those who know with their heart … Because that’s where the truth comes from, ladies and gentlemen—the gut.”
Whoa, yes, I thought: exactly. America had changed since I was young, when truthiness and reality-based community wouldn’t have made any sense as jokes. For all the fun, and all the many salutary effects of the 1960s—the main decade of my childhood—I saw that those years had also been the big-bang moment for truthiness. And if the ’60s amounted to a national nervous breakdown, we are probably mistaken to consider ourselves over it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/
Jeg tenkte jeg skulle sjekke denne, men det krever en google-konto, noe jeg ikke har. Forhåpentligvis betyr det at de vet lite om meg?
Jeg bruker ikke Google søk, jeg bruker ikke Chrome, jeg bruker ikke gmail, jeg bruker ikke google maps, jeg bruker adblock og Ghostery for å blokke trackere. Forhåpentligvis betyr det at Google ikke har alt for mye info om meg?
Du bør nok ikke være for optimistisk. De tracker alt og alle. Fb tracker folk som ikke er på fb ...
Facebook tracks people not on the site - Business InsiderJa, jeg er klar over det. Man slipper ikke helt unna, men man kan prøve å redusere problemet. Jeg bruker telefonen lite til internett, og jeg har satt Ghostery til å blokkere alle trackere, også nye, så problemet er nok kraftig redusert for min del.SSlubbert
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The headlines have never been worse. But an increasingly influential group of thinkers insists that humankind has never had it so good – and only our pessimism is holding us back. By Oliver Burkeman
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-really-better-than-ever-the-new-optimists
^Bra oppsummering etter noen gjennomganger av bevisste feil i sammenligninger:
At its heart, the New Optimism is an ideological argument: broadly speaking, its proponents are advocates for the power of free markets, and they intend their sunny picture of humanity’s recent past and imminent future to vindicate their politics. This is a perfectly legitimate political argument to make – but it’s still a political argument, not a straightforward, neutral reliance on objective facts. The claim that we are living in a golden age, and that our dominant mood of pessimism is unwarranted, is not an antidote to the Age of the Take, but a Take like any other – and it makes just as much sense to adopt the opposite view. “What I dislike,” Runciman says, “is this assumption that if you push back against their argument, what you’re saying is that all these things are not worth valuing … For people to feel deeply uneasy about the world we inhabit now, despite all these indicators pointing up, seems to me reasonable, given the relative instability of the evidence of this progress, and the [unpredictability] that overhangs it. Everything really is pretty fragile.”
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Jeg er en smule lei av all raljeringen om leftist media outlets fra alt right-bevegelsen. Mediaselskaper er private, kommersielle og kapitalistiske selskaper. Hvis det bare er venstresiden som får til slikt så forteller vel det oss at høyreorienterte er mindre begavede innen media eller kanskje direkte uinteresserte, for ikke kom å påstå at den samme venstresiden sitter med den økonomiske makten i verden.
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Innlegget ditt fortalte oss selvfølgelig ingenting om hva du mente om saken artikkelen omhandlet.Jeg er en smule lei av all raljeringen om leftist media outlets fra alt right-bevegelsen. Mediaselskaper er private, kommersielle og kapitalistiske selskaper. Hvis det bare er venstresiden som får til slikt så forteller vel det oss at høyreorienterte er mindre begavede innen media eller kanskje direkte uinteresserte, for ikke kom å påstå at den samme venstresiden sitter med den økonomiske makten i verden.
Hvis de er private, kommersielle og kapitalistiske selskaper så får de opptre slik også.
Hvis internett skal være fritt og tilgjengelig for alle, så får det være det.
Synes du oppsigelsen er saklig?
Er dette et samfunn du ønsker deg?
"Mediaselskaper er private, kommersielle og kapitalistiske selskaper."
Sist redigert:
I 2012 hadde over 50% av USAs befolkning kjøpt seg smartphone. Samtidig skjedde noe med tenåringer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
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Økonomisk makt behøver ikke gjenspeile seg verken i medier eller andre offentlige eller private institusjoner. Tror du seriøst det er de aller rikeste som setter dagsorden i ymse medier og institusjoner?Jeg er en smule lei av all raljeringen om leftist media outlets fra alt right-bevegelsen. Mediaselskaper er private, kommersielle og kapitalistiske selskaper. Hvis det bare er venstresiden som får til slikt så forteller vel det oss at høyreorienterte er mindre begavede innen media eller kanskje direkte uinteresserte, for ikke kom å påstå at den samme venstresiden sitter med den økonomiske makten i verden.
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Om oppsigelsen er saklig eller ei skal ikke jeg uttale meg om, kanskje var det dråpen som fikk begeret til å renne over? ikke vet jeg.
Damore sitt memo var derimot usaklig. Bare fjas uten noe som helst vitenskapelig hold.. så får horowitz og andre gærninger gjøre dette til en venstre høyre greie.GGjestemedlem
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http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-1502481290
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Why I Was Fired by Google
James Damore says his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn’t be tolerated in the company’s ‘ideological echo chamber’SSlubbert
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Og bekymringen er at dette ser ut til å forverres, i stedet for å gå i riktig retning.
Nå, i 2017, i en verden som flyter over av enormt mye kunnskap, søker folket tilbake til det absurde, til eventyrenes verden, til undertrykkelse og rå, brutal faenskap.
Mens vi kunne ha samarbeidet om å begrense skadene fra klimaet, for eksempel, er vi opptatt av å steine folk som ikke tror på julenissen.
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Innsiktsfullt fra en ekspert om handelsbalanser, produksjon, globalisering, reshoring og om at automatisering p.t. ikke er den store synderen man utlegger det som, dersom man følger strategier som dem man anvender i Tyskland og Østerrike. Amerikansk ekspert på produksjon intervjues. Lærerikt. Et utdrag:
Judis: Let’s talk now about what Trump has said and done to date. First, let me ask what you think about Trump jawboning Carrier, Ford, Nabisco and Toyota not to move their factories out of the United States. Critics have called it good politics, but bad economics.
Atkinson: I mentioned the story about the Austrian CEOs. I asked them about why there were slower to move production to China. I thought they were going to say they were worried about the Chinese stealing their intellectual property or something like that. Their answer was interesting. They said that if we don’t at least try to make it in Austria, if we don’t at least bring our engineers in, we will be socially shunned. That’s the term they used.
That is really interesting, and the Germans are like that too. There is a nationalistic sentiment there. The Austrian and German people at least want you to give it the old college try, but here there is just no expectation of that. If you are a CEO, you are beholden to only your shareholders. And the Washington consensus holds that you shouldn’t be beholden to anyone else. And so the generous way to think about what Trump is doing is that he is providing a little bit of social pressure. He is telling companies that he wants them to think twice. He wants them to see if their engineers can find a way to make that product line in Indiana. That’s the good side of what Trump is doing.
Now I see two potential downsides. One is that if that’s all he wants to do, it’s not enough. As I said, the Germans and the Austrians have extremely well developed manufacturing support systems in place. We have a program run out of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) called the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). It’s kind of like the old Agricultural Extension Partnership. It’s a very good program that helps small manufacturers with adopting new technology and training their workers, but the Canadians spend ten times more than we do per GDP on these kind of ventures. The Germans spend twenty times, and the Japanese forty times. So all the jawboning in the world is not going to make up for gaps like this in public investment.
Unfortunately, a first look at the proposed Trump budget would suggest this will get worse, not better. For example, his budget would eliminate the already underfunded MEP program while cutting funding for an array of R&D programs whose discoveries help U.S. manufacturers. For a candidate who campaigned on restoring U.S. manufacturing jobs, his budget will do the exact opposite.
The other thing that worries me about Trump’s approach is that it’s one thing to say we want to pressure you to invest in America, but if it crosses the line into moving away from our rule of law, that’s worrisome. For example, if Trump threatens to have the federal government retaliate against companies that don’t do what he wants, that would be worrisome. But there’s no evidence he’s done that or plans to do that.
Judis: Trump has spoken repeatedly during his campaign and presidency about our making “bad trade deals” with Mexico and China and promising to revise them. Is Trump on the right track here?
Atkinson: There is a good side and a bad side to this, too. We finally have a President who takes the trade deficit really seriously and who takes foreign mercantilism really seriously. I frankly don’t think the Bush administration or the Obama administration took this as seriously as it deserves. They were really in the market-opening mode rather than in the trade-enforcing mode. So that’s a useful rebalancing that Trump can bring to the table.
However, I do have some worries about his trade policy. I listened to [Director of the White House’s National Trade Council] Peter Navarro’s speech at the National Association of Business Economists. He implied that the U.S. should be in balance with all nations and that if we’re not in balance with one country, that requires action. That would be a huge mistake. The goal should not be to balance trade with every country. The goal should be to balance or be close to balance with the whole world, so you can be running a trade surplus with Austria and a trade deficit with the Mexico. That’s the way it ought to be.
I don’t agree that NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] is a bad deal. Mexico is fundamentally not a mercantilist nation. They may be doing a few things here and there, just as Canada does, but Canada and Mexico are not mercantilist nations. Why then alienate them? Why fight a fight that doesn’t need to be fought?
The fight we have to fight is against nations that are systemic mercantilists. And China is number one on the list. Ninety percent of our effort on trade enforcement should be against China . They are the big elephant in the room. Their dominant logic regarding globalization is mercantilism. So I worry that Trump is picking fights with nations who fundamentally should be our allies. Alienating nations like Mexico and Germany is to no avail in my view.
Can Donald Trump Revive American Manufacturing? An Interview With High-Tech Expert Rob Atkinson – Talking Points Memo
Interessant av to årsaker. Ja, antallet insekter er sterkt redusert, det er snakk om opp til 80% færre insekter i mange områder, i vår del av verden.
Men også interessant pga hvordan man fant ut av dette.
Where have all the insects gone? | Science | AAAS
Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. "If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen," says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany. Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. "I'm a very data-driven person," says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon. "But it is a visceral reaction when you realize you don't see that mess anymore."
Some people argue that cars today are more aerodynamic and therefore less deadly to insects. But Black says his pride and joy as a teenager in Nebraska was his 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1—with some pretty sleek lines. "I used to have to wash my car all the time. It was always covered with insects." Lately, Martin Sorg, an entomologist here, has seen the opposite: "I drive a Land Rover, with the aerodynamics of a refrigerator, and these days it stays clean."
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Herlig provoserende, fiffig utført.
Nøyaktig slikt som behøves for å sette sterkt selvmotsigende, religiøse påstander i relieff. De må krenkes til de er passelig kastrert, og i en slik setting, er et slikt skilt svært snedig.
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Når statistikk ikke passer med fordommene eller vrangforestillingene, er det statistikerne som lyver.
Statistikk er i krise og det som erstatter den blir ikke noe bedre.
In theory, statistics should help settle arguments. They ought to provide stable reference points that everyone – no matter what their politics – can agree on. Yet in recent years, divergent levels of trust in statistics has become one of the key schisms that have opened up in western liberal democracies. Shortly before the November presidential election, a study in the US discovered that 68% of Trump supporters distrusted the economic data published by the federal government. In the UK, a research project by Cambridge University and YouGov looking at conspiracy theories discovered that 55% of the population believes that the government “is hiding the truth about the number of immigrants living here”.
Rather than diffusing controversy and polarisation, it seems as if statistics are actually stoking them. Antipathy to statistics has become one of the hallmarks of the populist right, with statisticians and economists chief among the various “experts” that were ostensibly rejected by voters in 2016. Not only are statistics viewed by many as untrustworthy, there appears to be something almost insulting or arrogant about them. Reducing social and economic issues to numerical aggregates and averages seems to violate some people’s sense of political decency.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracyGGjestemedlem
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Poster den her i stedet for i fjasetråden. Den har varig verdi. Vederkvegende ord fra noen som har vettet i behold!
Spesielt verdt å lese!
"Bildedekningen av Johaug-saken følger sin helt egen dramaturgi, skriver Aksel Kielland."
http://morgenbladet.no/kultur/2017/02/johaugvariasjonene
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^ det der har jeg også merket meg. Det er svært påfallende.SSlubbert
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Interessant betraktning dette at man "ikke kan eksportere tillit til Kina". Mange utlendinger kan, f.eks., ikke forstå at vi har ubetjente turisthytter de kan låse seg inn i, bruke mat fra osv uten at noen står der for å ta betalt. Mister man den kjerneverdien i samfunnet er mye tapt og det kan være hva ytterligere polarisering fører til. Homogeniteten i Norge har skapt denne tilliten (samt et usedvanlig mangeøyd bygdedyr som sørget for at folk skikket seg).
Verdens sentralbanksjefer hygger seg i Jackson Hole denne uken. Meget interessant fra BBC World Service Business Daily om følgene av de 18 billioner USD som er pumpet inn i verdensøkonomien etter finanskrisen. "Whatever the highest value of assets were before, they are now 18 trilion dollars higher. We haven't understood what that means."
Blir det melt-down eller "melt-up" er gjenstand for noen alternative vurderinger. Der melt-up medfører at verdier fortsetter å stige til høyere nivåer enn noen gang før, noe som skaper barrierer for dem som ikke er "i markedene".
"They put 18 trillion into the market, now they have to take it out again, but they can't. Rate hikes are just a cup of water out of an ocean."
Must listen radio: BBC World Service - Business Daily, The $18tn QuestionSist redigert:SSlubbert
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Sist redigert:Så utrolig lite interesaant og langt fra verdt tiden jeg brukte på å lese det:
https://www.dagbladet.no/sport/ette...st-oppgjor-med-den-moderne-fotballen/68651072
Etter 30 år som supporter har Anders fått nok. Nå selger han alle draktene og tar et nådeløst oppgjør med den moderne fotballen
– Hvorfor skal jeg bry meg om en klubb bestående av unge, uinspirerte, overbetalte prettyboys som ikke synes det å representere Arsenal er det største i verden?
Hvorfor gadd jeg...SSlubbert
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Study of Iraq fighters reveals what makes people prepared to die for a cause
https://www.theguardian.com/science...what-makes-people-prepared-to-die-for-a-causeGGjestemedlem
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More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism
This fantastic nonfiction from 2016 is still worth discovering and pondering today.
https://www.theatlantic.com/enterta...n-100-exceptional-works-of-journalism/536049/
Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring roughly 100 of those stories that stood the test of time to a wider audience. I could not read or note every worthy article published in the past few years, and I haven't included any paywalled articles or anything published at The Atlantic. But everything that follows is worthy of wider attention and engagement. I hope it provides fodder for reflection and inspiration for future writing. My thanks to all of the publishers, editors and, writers who made these gems possible.GGjestemedlem
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Poster denne her fordi jeg synes den er viktig. Det handler om sitatstrekens ansvarsfraskrivelse i media. Om forskjellen mellom ... "Se hva han sa", " han sa .. og så skjedde dette", "du vil ikke tro det men se her..." .. til slik mener vi der er og vi har arbeidet litt for å gi et opplyst synspunkt.
Hva skal en avis være?
http://www.medier24.no/artikler/men...antall-saker-med-sitatstrek-i-tittelen/405384JJim I Hendriksen 2nd Edt.
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Som vanlig interessant fra kanskje NRK Radio sitt beste program....
https://radio.nrk.no/serie/verdiboersen/MKRV17015417/09-09-2017Sist redigert: -
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