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 firstthing the Soviets did when they invaded in December of 79 was take him out back and shoot him and replace him with a new
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.
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.
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.
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
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 theGreat Fyodor Dostoyevsky called it quote a Russian disease and indifference
some of them won't get enough work to do. And if they don't get enough work to do, they demotivate everybody else by their mere No dictator in the world ever said, "Let's just strip you away from your rights
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?
in like 2017 about how the reason why we made OpenAI was because we were worried that Demis Hassabis at Google was going to become dictator with AGI. Even back then they were this obviously about more than just money. Like these these powerful CEOs are literally afraid that if the other guy gets there first he might become dictator and they don't
complained about the cost of the defense cooperation with Seoul while praising his personal relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Japan's defense minister stressed that strong alliances with the US were critical for security.
can unilaterally change who owns what. No dictator or tyrant can mess with it. And it also means that the security of that information is much stronger.
That really boring dinner party that you're going to go to on Saturday night, it will come to an end. Evil dictatorships will fall. Great trees will fall and burn in our woods to make room for new ones.
Now, in some countries, that's a very good thing. In dictatorships, it makes it much easier for the democratic opposition to organize, to spread news about government suppression, to let people know that the dictator is corrupt.
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
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
- 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.
Assad was a brutal dictator that was overthrown by his own people and his own
They played the dictator game where you get a certain amount of money.
Not every dictator is a fascist.
In dictatorships, it makes it much easier for the democratic opposition to organize, to spread news about government suppression, to let people know that the dictator is corrupt. Even in democratic societies, it can empower a lot of marginalized voices that weren't listened to in the same way earlier.
So you overthrow a dictator through violence, you don't get a free civilization.
or as the dictator who threatens, when we come alongside them as that confident captain, life is so much easier.
Or that dictator , who's overpowering and intimidating to feel some sense of faux control.
It's called The Dictator 's Learning Curve." And he explains how dictators find a way to prevent these nonviolent revolutions before they occur.
But we defeated a dictator .
Why stick with that dictator idiot Castro when you can freely elect your idiots like we do?" And that was during the time of the Monica Lewinsky
Either through the dictator , either through support for the current government, or one way or the other.
He was a real dictator .
organization doesn't ask for it, is a dictator . That's what being dictator is. That's part of a movement. Those are the four areas I call skills or knowledge. It's easy to envision, but how do you envision—and I say this clearly, simply,
sladan mosovich the the dictator and so organizations like the George Soros organization or the national Democratic
or a dictatorial state, or anything.
I think that we could very easily end up in a sort of uh, a situation where some tiny group of people are essentially oligarchs or dictators . And ironically, both of these risks, the loss of control and the constitution of power, are things that people in the industry have been thinking about for decades.
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,
and the dictatorships in Argentina, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Just like "The Perfect Dictatorship," being Mexican is just one of the favorite movies for all of us.
Some of those dictators were stooges of Western powers, installed by Western powers.
The magicians are dictators .
where governments and dictators actually have the control of people and needs
And the dictatorship began in March of that year.
Especially in these dictatorships, right?
running from dictators , we choose this name because we're going to take what they look at as a negative and we're going to make it so fly.
They're dictatorships. I will delete.
A benevolent dictatorship I hope.
Or even a malevolent dictatorship.