qualities of a policy maker

Kian Ming took an interview https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DPMt4AgLF/

I agree. But the order is reversed. Structurally 

1. Empathy motivates the activism to solve a problem, or you end up chasing incorrect problems.

2. Resilience provides you with some ability to progress regardless of intellect. 

3. Intellectual curiosity makes you better than anyone who only has the first two. 

A subissue of empathy is rhetoric/charisma. Not knowing what people care about, undermines the ability to address what they care about most, first. That's why skill in communications depends less on orderliness and more on not pissing people off. Knowing when to intentionally piss people off is also dependent on empathy, to know what pisses them off the most. 

Malaysian politics : usually boring

I think Anwar only won 2022 because of collective incompetence of MN, and BN before that. Hence PH has never had a strong majority. Ever. 

I don't think it's fair to say any PMs before Non were very good either. Fair, at best. So between past and future mediocrity, I think the best option is always to rotate incumbents out.

While I have deep interests in economics and anthropology in general, I have limited interests in official politics. So my comments on this tend to be briefer than those of my friends who write for a living. 

philosophers in AI : hype

Class of 05 here. In my time, philosophy professors and almost all others as well were just plain bad at explaining how all the academic divisions integrated into a single cohesive architecture. I would have dropped out after sophormore year if I wasn't being paid to go to school.

Today, everyone is still broadly unable to coherently narrate how conscious human experience is quantifiable and thus the currency which denominates all human activity in terms of concrete data types. While I hope civilization will soon agree on how this language works, I remain rather skeptical that hurling humanities majors into branding and communication ( read : PR, IR, marketing ) roles iw going to help us get there. 

Business will be done. Not necessarily making us all smarter. 

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I think the sooner someone popularises the notion that any human can sit down and figure out how to analyse 100% of their first-person experiences into a finite set of sensory data types, the happier I'll be