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88 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 September 2007 06:31PM

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Comment author: capybaralet 30 September 2015 12:50:32AM 0 points [-]

Really bad example...

My impression is that democracy is seeing a sharp uptick in attacks from elites and intellectuals. There are many who now believe, e.g., that the US should be more like China (see: the success of Trump).

As the speaker noted, he expected his speech to be controversial in that crowd, and in a way, it was, as evidenced by this blog post :)