Islamist revolutionary vanguard ideology is weirdly influenced by socialist revolutionary vanguard ideology.

Islamist revolutionary vanguard ideology is weirdly influenced by socialist revolutionary vanguard ideology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GakhbzQOg60

Why Are There Four Gospels?

Two reasons the four gospels were chosen were 1) they were older so they had more time to spread and become more well-known. 2) when the canon was being put together, these four could be better used to argue what the Orthodox believed compared to adding others or removing some of these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6f3U1IMl1g

China Thought Nobody Would Notice

China’s covert ops are penetrating many countries, including the United States. Fifty percent of US counterspy efforts are against China. China likes to threaten Chinese living in the US to help their operations, if they don’t obey, the CCP will harm their family members still in China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEU5NYnDfB0

Countering Asia’s Axis of Authoritarianism

The CCP is threatened by American military power, but it’s most threatened by free expression and free peoples and that the Chinese people will demand more freedom and say in government, and the CCP fears what this will mean for their control of the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktUDRKlHVwM

Trump digs in on Iran blockade & how the Houthis outmanoeuvred Saudi Arabia in Yemen

The Houthis aren’t simply an ethnic nationalist group, they are Islamist who want to conquer all Yemen and indoctrinate people into their theocracy. They are brutal and oppressive to the people they conquer.

If the world wants to defeat the Houthis, they need to diligently train a Yemeni force, support it with air power, and see the war through to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYI8ucoFJLg

Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. | The Ezra Klein Show

The biggest threat of AI isn’t AI going rogue, but bad people using the power of AI to do horrible things. AI isn’t developed in a government lab, but in multiple corporations around the world. It only takes one super evil use of AI to do tremendous damage to economies or/and human life.

The threats of AI mass hacking and AI developing biological superweapons are huge.

Past new technologies created new jobs, so although jobs were destroyed, at least as many if not more were created. But with AI, if it keeps getting better and better, it will be able to do almost everything, and there will be few jobs left to do, especially blue collar jobs.

Bill Gates said that we should tax AI work like we do human work so that AI can pay into worker pensions.

A big problem with figuring out what works in education is…the things that work at the small scale where you likely have the most flexible and willing teachers, don’t work when you try to scale it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_156w0aYtU

How the Middle East Got So Screwed Up, with Simon Sebag Montefiore

Islamism pretends to be the ideology of ancient Islam, when really it is a modern political ideology that includes bits of Nazism and fascism.

The blockade on Iran is really hurting them. Success is possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeGg17ol2E

Is China’s Economy Broken?

China hasn’t simply over invested in their property sector, their credit system is politically biased to invest in unproductive assets, their consumption seems hopelessly suppressed, making China dependent on exports, and all of their amazing new technology is not enough to overcome their malinvestment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=155TplHXW-g