☀️🔮 Understanding Chinese tech giants; the current limits of our AI paradigm; tribal identity & future politics; genes, eels & cocaine++ #171

Dept of the near future

🚩 Amy Chua: The future of politics is tribal identity. EXCELLENT: “tribalism remains a powerful force everywhere…  it has begun to tear at the fabric of liberal democracies.” I'm not sure of her recommendation, which is to re-up the role of national identity to get disparate tribes to cohere. My observation: cities may play an in…