Russian interference in the US political process, to the extent that it had an effect, is more like an opportunistic infection than some kind of deadly engineered supervirus. We need to deal with it, but it highlights a deeper problem that has nothing to do with Russia at all.
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Unfortunately, Silicon Valley types are uniquely susceptible to this kind of conspiracy thinking. They grew up dealing with deterministic systems, so they're convinced there are secret levers of power and influence in the messy real world, hiding behind the complexity.
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Socialism couldn't even make acid-free paper—you think the Master Plan is still tacked to the GRU headquarters wall in Sverdlovsk? It's not Boris and Natasha in Sverdlovsk who are going to decide this fall's election. We need to get out there and knock some doors.
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@tristanharris had more familiarity with American evangelical culture, they would be less ready to credit this kind of 'WE ARE IN STAGE 2 OF THE KGB MASTER PLAN' silliness. It's a secularized version of Christian prophetic lunacy.#RaptureReadyShow this thread -
But as I said, computer nerds grow up dealing with systems that are, despite all their apparent complexity, deterministic, Taking these mental habits into the real world, they become convinced that there must exist a 'sudo' for human beings, and that we're in a race to find it.
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I’m so tired of glib references to the USSR as a shoeless backwater with futile bread lines. I get your point, and don’t entirely disagree. Just stop. -1990 immigrant
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I believe it's important to mention this aspect of the USSR for as long as people continue to forget the point it demonstrated at such a high human cost. I'm sorry you find the references glib!
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Counterpoint: it's vastly easier to destroy than to build. You don't need to be very talented, to, say, sabotage a billion-dollar company, but building a billion-dollar company from scratch requires immense amounts of hard work, talent, and luck.
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Counter-counterpoint: http://block.one just had a $4 billion ICO.
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Putin controls them indirectly, via his control of the weather.
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