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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 25
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      Robotics is not labor intensive once you’ve programmed/designed them. Robots can build other robots. The smartest Chinese roboticists will be trivially easy to poach. Half of them remain after grad school in the west anyway.

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    2. pastablister‏ @pastablister Apr 25
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      This all sounds like increasing class disparity, which is likely. So you think that there will be a STEAMA elite that forgets about the race/genes game?

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 25
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      Yes, that’s never been that important frankly. It’s just a narrative lens that trumpists around the world play up. The Chinese are no different from Americans on that I bet. Maybe a third are jingoistic racists, a third are pragmatic, a third have a liberal/cosmopolitan outlook.

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    4. pastablister‏ @pastablister Apr 25
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      Oh for sure, racism is everywhere, although I put it at 90% of humanity hits the racist threshold. So we have a mediocre racial mob vs. a minority creative elite that doesn't care about race. Who will win?

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 25
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      Not sure why you’re so obsessed with race as a framing dimension, it doesn’t even make my top 5 in significance

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    6. pastablister‏ @pastablister Apr 25
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      Almost every nation is an ethno-state, no?

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 25
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      Historical initial conditions effect that’s been eroded to like 20% of its historical strength already from like 1400 AD or so which was likely the peak

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    8. pastablister‏ @pastablister Apr 25
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      A good point, but I'd say eroded to maybe 90% of it's original. Maybe a better question: how could we answer this? What experiment?

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 25
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      Global trade, English language penetration, global food/music/movies spread, cosmopolitan cities... lots of proxy metrics, but it’s a rhetorical argument anyway. You think it is a big deal, I think it’s a minor overstated thing. We each proceed on assumptions.

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    10. pastablister‏ @pastablister Apr 25
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      How about: (rate of interbreeding) / (diversity)

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 25
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      I mean go model whatever you like... there are no physics-like fundamentals here

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        2. pastablister‏ @pastablister Apr 25
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          "The Selfish Gene"? vs. "The Selfish Meme"

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