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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy

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Are You Preventing Any One From Learning New Languages?

With advancing machine learning and dualingo like technologies, makes it really, really easy for you to to speak that language. And the more you learn new languages, the easier it is to learn even newer languages. Its not likely of elocate quota of languages one can learn in a lifetime. But with sufficient innovation, it could be quite positive. Some ye yeges. Thisti is a u, no stars, a scarcity oriente.

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I agree with you, Matt, but I honestly don't know. I think it's very important. One of the things I'm sort of faced with when I get talks to more human rights audiences is some guy will stand up, usually about my age, he'll stand up and say, I've got a question. Why don't you follow the money? I just love to say that. It is just, I'm talking about dumb man's planning. It's like, yeah, that was the name of a movie. I mean, it wasn't the name of the movie. It's the key statement out of what the president's matter, whatever, the Watergate movie. Look, you can't follow the money in China. Everybody lies about money. Money, when you make money, you record it as a loss. It's a negative in China. It's very, very hard because everybody is trying to evade taxes, and that is part of the society. It's part of Chinese culture. We can't really follow the money, but I suspect it's much what you just said, Matt, that it goes to a lot of people. A lot of people wet their beaks on this. I think the deeper problem here, though, is that I think even though the Chinese have kind of Beijing with a party has kind of wanted to stop this and rationalize it, and partly so they can wet their beak in a more formal way, especially with the beakers, because with Falun Gong, it was really out of control. Maybe you had those competing courtroom scenes that I mentioned. But the future for China has always been pharmaceuticals. That's where the big money is. You have this huge population which you can test drugs on, you know, if they die or get sick or something, you can, I should opt really easily. So you can really move
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fast.

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