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Re:China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy by zebrafish on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @10:09AM (#15018291)
We have the dictum of the dollar rather than the dictum of the party, but that's not a meaningful enough difference IMO.

I have to disagree on this point. The dollar leads to objectivism. The party leads to collectivism.

It depends on your definition of morality. Do you value the individual or the society? Would you see the outliers, both good & bad, purged or preserved?

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Re:China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy by thinkfurther on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:33PM (#15022840)
Oh yeah, objectivism. Ayn Rand being against welfare for other and the collecting it herself.

> Do you value the individual or the society?

.. or the dollar, which is entirely different from valuing people? Just one of a trillion examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkgFA9q7w0w

It leads to treating people like objects, and it makes it "rational" to destroy others for profit and "irrational" to care about them.

> It depends on your definition of morality.

It depends on your humanity, on the strength of your backbone. Do you have your "values", your experiences inside you, or do you have external measures, like dollars or party approval or a "definition of morality"?

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