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Hi Ben,<br>
<br>
What "different outlook" do you suggest? I know that it takes a
long time, <br>
but doing it seems better than not doing it. I know that many
people <br>
have hated me already. Some people already said to me that people
do not<br>
trust us because we have only a CS degree, not any degree in social
science. <br>
<br>
Your second point makes a lot of sense. For that reason, many
Chinese<br>
have also hated me. If you can find a person or use a web to
translate from<br>
Chinese to English, the following is my latest blog in the
ScienceNet. It<br>
directly addresses the safety of Mr. Xi Jinping after his term is
over. <br>
My wife said that somebody might create a traffic accident to wipe
me out <br>
when I visit China.<br>
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From the above link, you can read all my controversial blogs.
Sorry.<br>
<br>
-John<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/3/15 10:58 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi John,
I think the bottom line is, if you want folks in the neuroscience or
cog-sci or computing or engineering world to take BMM seriously and
actually read it, you should stop putting political content in it,
unless that political content is very *directly* related to neural or
cog-sci issues.... You should use a different outlook for
disseminating your political views.
Regarding using an alias for your political articles, that's a
separate issue. But as someone who lives in China (I live in Hong
Kong, but visit Beijing often), I'll tell you my view.... First, the
Chinese gov't is not dumb and if they care they could very easily
deduce who wrote your BMM politics articles, in spite of your use of
an alias. Second, they don't really care that much what is written in
English on the outside-China Web.... To alarm them, you'd need to
write in Chinese and get a following inside China. Anyway this is
just my observation and peripheral to the main matters at hand...
-- Ben
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