I watched Tucker Carlson’s discussion about AI with Kevin O’Leary. I use AI very little and wouldn’t notice it if tomorrow it disappeared completely. Plus, I’m amenable to Carlson’s argument that data centers are ugly and loud. But in this discussion, I believe O’Leary won. Not that he’s extremely bright or anything. One thing he said was so patently ridiculous, I thought I’d never stop laughing. O’Leary clearly has sinusitis and speaks like an elephant with a clamp on his trunk. To illustrate the beauties of AI, he explained that he recently got a full-body scan that is now much cheaper because of AI. The scan revealed to him that he has a sinus infection. Which anybody not completely deaf and blind could have told him for free.
Still, Tucker didn’t manage to vanquish even this level of discourse. He spent an inordinate amount of time developing the favorite argument of Michael Moore that tax breaks for large companies are bad. Or that Google is not more moral than China. Compared to this accumulation of silliness, even O’Leary with his AI sinusitis sounded more intelligent.
It was a close match with O’Leary holding a slight edge.
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Is this true? If yes, how did it happen?
A few days ago read that despite legal ruling to admit students regardless of race Harvard still used background info to determine race and used it in admission process. I think, in 2025-2026.
Is the overemphasis on issues of diversity and race both partly a reason and a result of academic decline?
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This is CCP propaganda. I wouldn’t worry about it. There is no such thing as a Chinese university.
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What do you mean by “there is no such thing as a Chinese university”?
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It’s a totalitarian state.
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Btw, in comments to another post, you said the one thing FSU got right was putting the slavery issue in history books where it belongs.
At first, I thought of slavery in Russian empire being not about race, then of current desire of people there to boast re coming from a family of former slaveowners (gentry), till suddenly the central point became clear – they put it aside after killing, exiling or making former slave owners second class citizens in 1917.
So the cost of putting it aside was quite high.
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Mexicans moved on, everybody in Latin America moved on, all Western European countries moved on, even Africa moved on. Literally the only people who didn’t move on are Americans.
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