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Another fake win

Following yesterday's drama (The Dumbest Trade War in History), Trump backed away from Canada tariffs after Trudeau reiterated exactly the same border plan Canada proposed last December.

Posted: Dec 17, 2024 7:54 AM PST | Last Updated: December 17, 2024.

Newly sworn-in Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, flanked by a handful of cabinet colleagues, provided more details Tuesday about how the government plans to spend $1.3 billion to secure the Canada-U.S. border and allay U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's concerns about irregular migrants and drugs.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-plan-leblanc-trump-1.7412456

Тупые магаголовые празднуют очередную победу.

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Upd: Леваки-радикалы из WSJ сыпят соль на трамповские раны:

Trump Blinks on North American Tariffs
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Later Monday, Mr. Trump paused his tariffs against Canada as well after a phone call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada is also deploying more law enforcement to the U.S. border and will appoint a “Fentanyl Czar,” among other enforcement promises.

If the North American leaders need to cheer about a minor deal so they all claim victory, that’s better for everyone. The need is especially important for Mr. Trump given how much he has boasted that his tariffs are a fool-proof diplomatic weapon against friend or foe. Mr. Trump can’t afford to look like the guy who lost. Ms. Sheinbaum in particular seems to recognize this, and so far she’s playing her Trump cards with skill.

None of this means the tariffs are some genius power play, as the Trump media chorus is boasting. The 25% border tax could return in a month if Mr. Trump is in the wrong mood, or if he doesn’t like something the foreign leaders have said or done. It also isn’t clear what Mr. Trump really wants his tariffs to achieve. Are they about reducing the flow of fentanyl, or is his real goal to rewrite the North American trade deal he signed in his first term? If it’s the latter, there’s more political volatility ahead.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-justin-trudeau-concessions-trade-border-d5bbed97

Quote of the day

The American composer, artist, and ­ music theorist John Cage (1912–1992) wrote
about a sudden philosophical insight that he had in the late 1940s during an experi-
ment in the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. He described it like this: “[S]ilence
is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around.”

--- Thomas Metzinger, The Elephant and the Blind. 2024.

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His comparison of meditation experience to silence feels right. It's not like any other exprience, even if we say it's like flying or swimming or resting. On my smartwatch it registers as deep sleep, but I know I'm not sleeping; rather, I feel that the world around me goes into quetude of almost non-existence.

Brain science with Jerry and George

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Ezra Klein says, Don't believe the fucking moron.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-believe-him/id1548604447?i=1000688157475

He has a point. We've seen again and again that every time the fucking moron overplays his hand and people push back, the moron withdraws.

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However, this would require shifting incentives away from maximizing engagement and toward epistemic responsibility, which is difficult given current business models.

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It would be an interesting challenge to come with up a technology and a business model that solves the problem.

Also related https://youtu.be/qlPHGnChhI4?si=03mDoaAYAFJnEfCE&t=4004

truth conditions (theoretical intentionality) vs satisfaction conditions (practical intentionality)