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Gary Kasperov interview discussing odds, artificial intelligence, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin...
https://www.the-parallax.com/2017/07/28/kasparov-odds-ai-cybersecurity-defcon/...
Putin’s agenda is simple: Stay in power. Now, how you do that when your economy is in tatters, and you don’t expect any improvements? The corruption is endemic, and you understand that all your cronies are just there to take more and more money, so you need to create chaos all over the world.
Russian propaganda is based on promoting Putin as a white knight; defending Mother Russia against an evil world. To create chaos, you have to organize, and there are many opportunities now with Trump, who is trying to build this relationship, because Trump likes dictators.
Trump hates process, rules, consensus, and negotiations. He would prefer to deal with Putin than with the 28 leaders of the NATO countries. Putin is more dangerous than the Soviet regime. He built—I have to give him credit—a very sophisticated system. He created fake news on the Russian Internet more than 10 years ago, to diminish all efforts of Russian opposition. A few million dollars got him a few websites that could paralyze the efforts of his opponents. If people tried to go to the free Internet, they were easily called out by the Kremlin.
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Putin’s agenda is simple: Stay in power. Now, how you do that when your economy is in tatters, and you don’t expect any improvements? The corruption is endemic, and you understand that all your cronies are just there to take more and more money, so you need to create chaos all over the world.
Russian propaganda is based on promoting Putin as a white knight; defending Mother Russia against an evil world. To create chaos, you have to organize, and there are many opportunities now with Trump, who is trying to build this relationship, because Trump likes dictators.
Trump hates process, rules, consensus, and negotiations. He would prefer to deal with Putin than with the 28 leaders of the NATO countries. Putin is more dangerous than the Soviet regime. He built—I have to give him credit—a very sophisticated system. He created fake news on the Russian Internet more than 10 years ago, to diminish all efforts of Russian opposition. A few million dollars got him a few websites that could paralyze the efforts of his opponents. If people tried to go to the free Internet, they were easily called out by the Kremlin.
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