The ability to build things and get beyond the gridlock associated with not having elites like Robert Moses just dictate how things will run. Well, if you look at it as a spectrum, with Robert Moses being at one end or a very imperious CEO at that same end.
Of, you know, dictators. Dictators and total dictators, yeah. That the ardent totalitarianism says, you know, the key is that people don't believe anything.
wasn't American support for the mujaheden that really provoked the Russians into invading Afghanistan because what it was was the sock puppet dictator was a basket case and he had created so many enemies that he just couldn't hold it together. So the first thing the Soviets did when they invaded in December of 79 was take him out back and shoot him and replace him with a new
And following that pattern into the future, scaling laws can help us predict how capable AI might become, gaining the power to transform our economy, or hand us over to authoritarian dictators, or make all our likenesses sing covers of the Dave Matthews Band. CRASH ...INTO ME! Yeah baby.
The easiest way to understand it is to compare it to the way dictators work. Dictators control countries. They control many aspects of the lives of the people. And people try and find ways to live within those countries acquiescent often to criminal actions of the state up until they can't, the point
There is another villain who can get it all done with one, and that's Bloor-- --Dictator of Uranus. I want to plead with you-- if ever the word Uranus is not funny to you, stop laughing at everything.
me so after this video we uploaded it and as the page moderator I'm able to dictate what the top comment is and what people first see when they go to the comment section I put Matt's email and how to get in contact with him he received hundreds of emails from people in our community who then wanted to be
And I think that's where the tension lies, is people saying that I don't want to follow those old rules that would have been around for centuries dictated either by local tradition, local customs and culture, or by religion. People don't want that.
That's true. Early into this century, just barely. dictate what you are picturing.
A common question about leadership is: what makes a good leader? One who's a bit of a dictator or one who acts by consensus? My opinion is that a good leader is one who knows when to be a dictator and when to act by consensus.
she said let's look at life cause life has had 4 billion years, 13 billion if you wanna go back to the beginning of the universe, 4 billion years to show us its mandates and dictates. And what you found was this pattern, single cell life is the first life to emerge, very, as you said, war like, angry, aggressive, anger that's actually a human term, but aggressive, right? It realizes this isn't working through whatever communication it has, it begins talking amongst
leave in the middle of the I was too worried about what would happen and I was riveted but it was sort of like dictatorial and unfair and so even though I was like against this what I really must be saying is that I was in love with plot and that I was sort of devoted to it and riveted by it
uh banging pots at night, and all of a sudden we found that Chile was uh rising peacefully against the dictatorship. However, at the time, the Communist Party had drawn uh the opposite lesson than some of us had drawn. I was a militant of the Socialist Party.
and prima shoddy clothing and primitive equipment an affection for murderous dictators ambivalence about the westernizing innovations of Peter the Great Fyodor Dostoyevsky called it quote a Russian disease and indifference
any Ru in a cube could offer illusions of vast panoramas and Lush of pointments in the last panel fashion dictated a return to actual reality but fortunately the standard hadman set and this is a piece I did for the New Yorker that was a lot of fun
No dictator in the world ever said, "Let's just strip you away from your rights
freedom dictate my actions. I will, if anything, double down on defending
was the Americans were warning the new Iranian regime about threats from the new dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, who had just overthrown the government in a bloody coup d'eta. No revolution there. And you can watch the video of this. Have you ever seen the video?
become dictator with AGI. Even back then they were this obviously about more than just money. Like these these powerful
Context dictates what behavior is permissible.
Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Weight dictates a struggle.
the dictates of the mathematical equations, the physical laws.
That dictated the pattern of empire building, the first of the Portuguese, and the Spanish, and the Dutch, and the French, and British.
Evil dictatorships will fall.
In dictatorships, it makes it much easier for the democratic opposition to organize, to spread news about government suppression, to let people know
to dictate how you live in the present.
butter dictate like the consistency that you're working with you know based on the temperature of the chocolate so this
or dictating public consensus like I never have written about anything and I was like I hope people I want people to
No dictator or tyrant can mess with it.
is dictated by the actions Command-C, Command-V, then economics tells you that its price should fall to zero,
It dictates attention, focus, decision-making, go down the list.
or dictating them, to digital records.
They dictated their terms.
It dictates everything you do, everything you don't do, and how you do what you do.
They dictate what results you can produce, and they dictate what results you can't produce in a combination or by themselves.
own dictatorships by saying, "If you don't support us, the extremists will come in power." We know what that leads to in the end.
former dictatorial regime bound his hands in feet they put laxatives and broken glass in his food and they often plac him in a Cell deliberately designed
is going through dictate the way that you treat them or the way that you see them or the way that they see themselves
few seconds to mention that Saddam Hussein had been groomed by the CIA since the 1950s on and off. And he had been part of different dictator regimes on and off. He'd been in exile in Cairo for a little while and this kind of thing. And then in the 70s leading up to the coup, I think it was really closer to the Soviet Union. And um and so we'll
or a dictatorial state, or anything.
- He's a dictator who's very bloody, as repressive as you can be of political opposition, internal opposition.
He was a dictator and he was a good one.
essentially oligarchs or dictators. And ironically, both of these risks, the loss of control
Assad was a brutal dictator that was overthrown by his own people and his own
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They fled dictatorships or political persecution — either by force or by choice.
In the shadow of dictatorships, conflict, and war, many Latin American authors wrestle not just with the memory of trauma,
The novela del dictador is a distinctly Latin American genre.
and the dictatorships in Argentina, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Paraguay.