The psychology of communism | Vejas Liulevicius and Lex Fridman

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[@mustang607]

If you can’t criticize the science, it’s not likely to be science.

[@freedomworks3976]

Number 1 thing communism taught me is that evil never dies its always waiting for its next chance at power.

[@darbyheavey406]

Look at how popular Gov. Long was in Louisiana- similar impulse with less violence. Louisiana has yet to fully recover.

[@diogenes9295]

It wasn't Lenin's confidence that offed millions. It was his arrogance.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

Yes, and funding from Th/UItre/Rch

[@friendlyskiespodcast]

This topic comes at a good time. Communism and Socialism will be looked at more closely if we as humans can't figure out a better model for learning and giving opportunities to work and learn and collaborate with AI rather than AI working against us. I do see companies though increasingly seeing the value of critical thinking, and creativity again, and so AI can give us this better learning path to accelerate us all and put us on equal ground. The traditional models are not sufficient anymore aka high school, college with an inherent time box where we forget or get complacent at our jobs.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

‘The High & Low Roads To CIIctvzm’ -HG/eIIs

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

First, let’s try not having a Benker/0wnėd/Cn/Benk/Syztm.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

Our CBSyztm enabled all the wers of the last cntry. Allowed aid to (along w interests tied to its constituent parts) fwnd c00mernzm.

[@Icarusdecending82]

The most intelligent human beings seem to also be the most destructive.

[@LibertarianRF]

Gang members in LA, Chicago?

[@Icarusdecending82]

@@LibertarianRF creators of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, machine guns, AI, you know, things that may end humanity.

[@TheMetallicaman13]

@@Icarusdecending82but they are also things that have pushed us into the modern age and helped develop our understanding of the world around us. Intelligence is the reason we have everything we have today instead of living in caves

[@Icarusdecending82]

@@TheMetallicaman13 true.

[@krishnasiddharthanemalikan5118]

🙂

[@nikitakucherov5028]

Thank you Ronald Reagan for seeing that capitalism is the superior economic policy

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

They tried to pop him 69 days in see my 1minVid on that.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

He was a pwwn/0f/th/NeIib/GI0b/Bkr/led/cIäzz.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

I hate when ppI say he prmtd trckdwn. *”Tm/S0weII/Dstrys/Th/TkIe/Dwn/Argmt”* (worth/14/min)

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

They=Ne0Ib/Benkstr/led/Est/mt

[@LibertarianRF]

Thats a total myth...also he came with inches of ridding the world of nukes. He did reduce the count by thousands...that's why the military industrial complex vilifies him

[@embershadow2239]

Imaging never living in communist country, or in communist society and be "an expert". (Please, dont compare this to experts on dark ages, ancient rome etc, you have to understand differences. Especially when there are literally thousands of people with phds from communist countries)

[@christophercarrigg3775]

So are you saying historians can't be experts since they didn't live in those eras?

[@DevAngelo]

Imagine never having a cavity and being a dentist....

[@ssb9054]

Lived under a communist rule, and I am glad that I can phrase that in past tense.

[@mikitz]

I don't need to go to the sun for a holiday either to know it will suck balls.

[@tommyrq180]

Imagine being so ignorant that you’d type out a comment like this. Imagine an entire authoritarian system where PhDs are compelled to adhere to sloganeering and bureaucratic narratives to get your degree. Imagine all the PhDs from American universities who must dogmatically adhere to the same sort of group-induced, anti-empirical hysterias, albeit not government-sponsored. Imagine there’s no Heaven. It’s easy if you try. 😮

[@mustang607]

Sounds like as long as the system exists there are people that have an overwhelming need to break it.

[@alexluna404]

Dostoevsky talked about this. No matter what we set up, humans will go against any system just to confirm their own individuality

[@lot2196]

Insanity.

[@tomspaghetti]

Hot take, Lenin was right.