Episode 67 - Social Credit Scores and Re-education Camps in China
The episode starts with a game of thrones discussion for 2 minutes (how can it not)! And then Max discusses some related news items coming out of China:
The Rise of The Social Credit Score
The Re-Education Camps the Uighers and others in Western China are being forced into
Causality Myths
The Big Debate on Socialism vs Capitalism
Relevant Links
NPR Investigative Story on Uighers in Western China
China’s Social Credit System
As explained in Psychology Today
And the Daily Mail
And the New York Post
Chicago Tribune on Criticisms and rebuttals of the (real) Credit Score
NY Post: Why your Uber Rating Sucks
Debate over Hayek and Free Markets in an American MBA Class with Chinese Students
Book I just finished and recommend
George Gilder: Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Related Episodes
Episode 31 on Causality. I cover the idea of Causality Myths in the current episode
Episode 30 on the Game of Thrones predictions by machine learning and here we find they did surprisingly well
Episode 14 on Robot Communism, and the Chinese Professor who wrote an article in the Washington Post arguing that AI will give us better command economies.
