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On Your Marx ...

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2025-02-15

Martin Geddes is trailblazing as usual.

Here he has been educating ChatGPT with his views on Marxism - views with which I would agree.

ChatGPT seems surprisingly eager to assimilate his information, which rather begs the question - if it's that easy to get it to modify its views, could anybody do this? Obviously, the answer is yes, but I suppose it may depend upon how illogical the modified views would turn out to be.

After all, what Martin seems to have done is introduce an alternative assumption into the AI works - and assumptions are the basis upon which all theories rest. When we get to the stage that "events dear boy, events" quieten down a bit, I may have time/inclination to see if I can get AI to produce some spectacularly incorrect results simply by introducing an invalid assumption or two into its thinking, but until then there is a website to run ...

Meanwhile, why not try such an exercise yourself?

 

US to Quit the UN?

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2025-02-14

You know how it is, you wait hours for a bus and then 11 come along in a bus-a-thon. Well, we have waited years for the good sense to do any number of sensible things, and suddenly a Trump Executive Order comes in (along with around 199 others) that portends the exact action required.

Obviously such a dramatic step cannot be just taken overnight as there will be many knock-on effects that have to be considered and seen to be considered, but that process of consideration has now been set in motion.

Where Trump leads, will the world follow?

 

JD Vance Promotes the New Politics - Same as the Old Politics!

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2025-02-14

Well, we might have to reverse a few years to find the "old politics" that JD Vance enthuses over to the Munich Security Conference, but there's nothing new under the sun.

"I've heard a lot about what you are defending yourselves from, but what exactly is it that you are defending your selves for?"

"If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you"

"You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail ... "

(19 minutes)

 

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Elon Explains the DOGE

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2025-02-14

... not to mention one or two other matters ...

(27 minutes)

 

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The Trump View on NATO by Peter Hegseth

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2025-02-13

As spelled out at NATO HQ by Peter Hegseth in Brussels.

One might loosely summarise (pay up, arm up, revamp defence industries, recognise realities, and make peace in Ukraine) - all wrapped in supportive language. 

Largely unspoken were the implications for NATO if they should fail ...

Re: the situation in Ukraine:

"I think that realism is an important part of the conversation that hasn't existed enough ... "

(28 minutes)

 

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How the other NATO countries (honourable exception: France) will create the realism to reconstitute their defence industries in any sensible timescale, given their current "green" energy policies, remains to be clarified.

 

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