It was not really a base for capitalism to take hold and effect. It needs a basic rule of law and democracy to work. All it got was brief window of chaos, before the kleptocracy returned.
Best description of the cultural background i found so far was this:
> It was not really a base for capitalism to take hold and effect. It needs a basic rule of law and democracy to work. All it got was brief window of chaos, before the kleptocracy returned.
This is my understanding as well, from everything I’ve read. The more interesting question is why Russia, both as a nation state and a culture, has no history or tradition of democracy. I’ve never received an answer to this question.
Thank you! I briefly looked at the Wiki article to see what you were talking about. Apparently, some of the cultural history in regards to democracy is unknown, as the article mentions that the exact nature of the democratic experiment was lost to time.
But that is just art. Not great art.
Great art comes from stepping away from your peer group after you mastered it, being able to incooperate "unrelated" or "impossible" other concepts into the art. Its a subconscious process, of recombination and filtering.
And only some can boldly go, to were no person has gone before.
Which makes this the ultimate training goal for AI. Not AGI, but a synthesis AI, capable to produce "breakthrough" candidates for the field it is trained upon, by allowing noise and filtering for the criteria of great break throughs- explanation power, beauty, higher consistency, that puzzle piece fitting all gaps moment. If there is ever a creature out there, doing that, silicon or otherwise, humanity will own its continued existence to its existence.
The disaster is already preprogrammed. Lots of germans bought electric heaters to heat flats through the winter, as the heat provided by the house central heating will be reduced. Which will result in large increases of base load on the network, which already will be under strain.
Which means rolling black outs as soon as it gets cold. Perma-black outs if the people do not see reasons and unplug their heaters.
No solution has been proposed for this. The clever ones went for wood for heating.
Still preferable to shiver one winter through, then have it warm in putins prison.
It is not clear at all that people will behave that way. The buying of electric heaters for now just reflects huge uncertainty about any sources of heat.
What percentage of German homes use resistive heating? If they switch to heat pumps with a COP of at least 4, every heat pump will free up enough electricity to run 3 more heat pumps. The problem is importing enough heat pumps and having the government subsidize the purchase and installation for those who can't afford it. Perhaps NATO countries would sell their stocks of heat pumps to Germany if manufacturers don't have enough of them.
They are also out of foreign currency like Sri Lanka. Which accelerates chinas problems, as pakistan is one of its debtors and will likely default on those credits.
To much rationality or filtering early on in creativity detrains your mind from being creative.
No dopamine on discovery of the new, prevents that circuitry from running after a while. Write it down, filter it later. Celebrate even ridiculous ideas and approaches, consider them not "failed" nonsense, but in-between-steps as your subconcious works on the next, better solution. Let self-critique not be negative "Ridiculous, never would work with the physics we got" but more "constructive" -"that would be great if we could get it to fly".
Also remember, that your subconscious works with the knowledge it got. It needs input, to create strange mashups. Get your input way outside of your field to not be stuck in the solutions of your peers.
Train boarding at least could be decoupled from slowing down and stopping. Just have a "Shuttle Wagon" depart pre arrival from the train with those who want to get out and another one speeding up with new passengers after the train as it passes through the station. Under ideal circumstances, a train would actually not even have to slow down for this. Con is that there is always a Shuttle in the station.
Remember also, that large companies have experimental expansion phases which they usually abandon once economic crisis dawns. If the thing you build is such a "experimental fort" - your parent company might be open to a "buy out", were you promise them favorable conditions by your future company with whom they share the IP.
The labs janitor sold dead animals for a side hustle, cheaper then cremation and the lower caste is not properly educated about bacterias, viruses and bio hazards.
(Wild speculation - may contain novel truth contamination)
Best description of the cultural background i found so far was this:
https://youtu.be/f8ZqBLcIvw0?t=76