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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Orcas Island, WA
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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24

      OH "The next American civil war will be fought inside Fortnite, so it won't be that bad."

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24

      If we avoid an actual civil war, it may well be because most military age US males can't run a mile and then shoot an AR accurately. Or have drug or criminal problems that bar them from service. Plus, there's a new Netflix special on. This is fine.https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365 …

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    3. Christopher Mims  🎆‏Verified account @mims Oct 24
      Replying to @antoniogm

      bread and circuses --> pacifism

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    4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24
      Replying to @mims

      It's all great until the barbarian Huns show up. And then you've got to either pay them off, or find other barbarians to defend yourself with, and then it all falls apart when they realize there's nothing keeping them from just taking what they like.

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    5. Jon Evans‏Verified account @rezendi Oct 24
      Replying to @antoniogm @mims

      Pretty dumb of the Huns to bring guns to a dronefight

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    6. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24
      Replying to @rezendi @mims

      Yes, that's the bet of the West. Whether against foreign enemies, or domestic ones, they just hope that the same automation that creates economic turmoil at home and abroad neatly solves the problem by making wars and law enforcement cost only money, rather than political will.

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    7. Jon Evans‏Verified account @rezendi Oct 24
      Replying to @antoniogm @mims

      The bet is also that conquering and occupying territory, which made some sense in the twentieth century when wealth was correlated with geography, has been shown to be consistently not worth the cost any more. What exactly are the Huns going to take if they show up in Palo Alto?

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    8. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24
      Replying to @rezendi @mims

      Google will build whatever search engine the Chinese want, if they're the ones doing the invading. For starters. They're already doing that and the bullets aren't even flying.

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    9. Jon Evans‏Verified account @rezendi Oct 24
      Replying to @antoniogm @mims

      That is ludicrous on so many levels I hardly know where to start. Will there be Chinese overseers walking the halls with guns, ensuring that the engineers don't write buggy code? On what planet does this make more sense than writing their own search engine?

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    10. Jon Evans‏Verified account @rezendi Oct 24
      Replying to @rezendi @antoniogm @mims

      Every twenty-first century occupation of territory, with the exception of the Crimea where it was welcomed by the population in question, has been a spectacular disaster not remotely worth the cost.

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24
      Replying to @rezendi @mims

      That's true between rational actors of roughly the same level of economic development. You're telling me that wars of conquest will never happen again, because computers and Internet? The US is currently embroiled in something like a half-dozen wars overseas, to some extent.

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        2. Jon Evans‏Verified account @rezendi Oct 24
          Replying to @antoniogm @mims

          I'm saying that wars of conquest no longer make any economic sense, and make the conqueror weaker rather than stronger, and therefore are incompatible with "barbarians" "taking what they like." When they happen it will be purely for religious and cultural reasons.

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24
          Replying to @rezendi @mims

          That's right. It's not rational anymore. But I think one of the big flaws in how the capitalist West thinks about the world is not understanding that things like honor or feelings of historical wrong outweigh any utilitarian calculation for many peoples.

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        4. Jon Evans‏Verified account @rezendi Oct 24
          Replying to @antoniogm @mims

          Sure, but you're moving the goalposts -- at first this was about utilitarian barbarians who could be paid off and who wanted to take things, not a culture driven by wrongs and insults to their honor, remember?

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        5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24
          Replying to @rezendi @mims

          No, no...you put the Chinese in Palo Alto based on money. IMO, if they're there, it's because they nursed their historical grudge about being colonized, Taiwan, etc., and decided to become global hegemons rather than just messing around with fake islands in the S. China Sea.

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        6. Jon Evans‏Verified account @rezendi Oct 24
          Replying to @antoniogm @mims

          ? I am pretty sure if you look back in this thread you will find that the first instance of the word "Chinese" came from thee, not me.

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        7. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 24
          Replying to @rezendi @mims

          I picked the only realistic invader in the foreseeable future one can imagine. Realistically, I think it'll be generations before anyone can touch the US homeland, which is why I'm on team US (vs. team Europe) in terms of surviving the coming apocalypse.

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