My read (which of course could be wrong) isn't so much that the problem is US-centric as it is misunderstanding the geopolitical shift. If they somehow manage to avoid the worst from Trump and if the US somehow returns to normal, the geopolitics will still have irretrievably changed.
And they're not ready for that. The era has changed. This started before Trump I even, even though that and Brexit were the obvious events. But there's no going back to the international global rules-based order that they are comfortable operating in.
arguably globalism ended in the 90s, it just wasn't immediately obvious
It did, it's just that the 90s went all the way to ~2016.
i really liked what john ralston saul had to say about globalism a while back (youtu.be/90UAEtt0ta8 and especially youtu.be/F58AkoeSpn0?...) —"globalism" doesn't mean "international trade" per se (although it incorporates that) but rather all human interaction viewed through the lens of economics
oh why does he have to be on substaaack 😭😭😭
i mean he's still on twitter too; i find boomers in general just straight up aren't sensitive to Platform Politics™
(imo he even betrays that position in that interview when he says something like—while waving his hands dismissively—"technology is just 'stuff'…")
to your point in that other thread, I often think about something Eric Horvitz at MSR told me when I asked him about the bias and design principles that could get baked into ML; those are baked into pretty much all technology in some way, even a mechanical geartrain represents more than pure science
technology is the way we apply science to change the world around us and it ends up embodying what we think about the world and how we want it to change (and sometimes all the things we don't know and haven't thought of) and imma stop before I get *too* Kranzberg
taleb (i know, i know) wrote that technology as an application of science is a revisionist position, and rather it goes in the opposite direction ie science is the application of technology (here i have to reluctantly agree with taleb)
Ooh, thanks, I'll have to watch that.
the second one that i cued to a timecode, the remark about "managers in drag" i think is 👨🍳💋🤌
somethng about Fukuyama and that 'end of history' nonsense and thinking that economics had taken over from history in there maybe?
heh yeah i still haven't read that but feel like i should for posterity
honestly that's better than reading the essay (which I did skim mainly so I could critique Nicolas Carr's end of IT piece better (and now I can't decide whether to add a cry-laughing meme or there's a name I haven't heard in a long time dot gif)
too many large powers (*cough* Russia China maybe India *cough*) who don't *do* rules, even before the US copied their approach
