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For me, he is a real hero.

I am considering the idea of «Identity of indiscernibles», https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_of_indiscernibles

If I am correct, from it we can deduce that there can be no two exactly same things. Somewhere I heard that it is an important law of materialism.

However, this law was questioned by Max Black. Following Wikipedia article about him, he presented objection by:

«means of a hypothetical scenario in which he conceives two distinct spheres having exactly the same properties, thereby contradicting Leibniz' second principle in his formulation of "The Identity of Indiscernibles". By virtue of there being two objects, albeit with identical properties, the existence of two objects, even in a void, denies their identicality.»

Since these spheres are conceived in void, this sounds pretty idealistic for me and not be able to seen in the material world, which is the only reality in materialistic view.

Is my deduction correct?

For mathematically minded, Wayne Blizard made formal axiomatization of multisets https://doi.org/10.1305%2Fndjfl%2F1093634995 where existence of multiple indistinguishable objects is allowed (like a list with multiple same entries). This seems to violate the law of Identity of indiscernibles to me. Note that the Zermelo-Frenkel (ZF) set theory follows Identity of indiscernibles, what is seen e.g. when the union of {x,y} and {x} gives {x,y}. In ZF theory, set can contain only distinguishable objects. The result of rejecting the Identity of indiscernibles in the Blizard's work is that his axioms are very complicated when compared with neat ZF axiomatization, what of course translates to lengthy, cumbersome and unpractical derivation of proofs. I have a feeling that this «innocent» touch of idealism spoils pretty everything in mathematics, not to mention other fields.

Over 100 years ago, Russia became core of USSR and the pioneer of international struggle for workers' liberation, poverty lifting, enlightenment, scientific progress and propagation of socialism and communism.

Now -- in my humble and maybe biased by liberal propaganda view -- Russia is one of the most reactionary, conservative, backward-looking, clerical country. Please excuse me posting some liberal, imperialist shit here, but seems that Kremlin officially admits going far-right: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/kremlin-finally-puts-together-ideology

Speaking locally, there seems to be evidence that Polish far-right party PiS (Law and Justice) is backed by Kremlin as well as the extremely influential priest, Tadeusz Rydzyk, founder and director of the ultra-catholic, conservative Radio Maryja station has/had ties with Polish and Russian security services before the end of People's Republic of Poland and USSR (sic!). I have some generally available videos, but in Polish, sadly.

Could you tell me how far this is true? If so, what purpose had the late communist states and today's Russia in spreading far-right propaganda? WTF went wrong?

Marx to other Reddit alternatives: I fucking told you!

Chinese citizens are among those who feel the most positively about AI products and services. Americans … not so much.

In a 2022 IPSOS survey, 78% of Chinese respondents (the highest proportion of surveyed countries) agreed with the statement that products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks. After Chinese respondents, those from Saudi Arabia (76%) and India (71%) felt the most positive about AI products. Only 35% of sampled Americans (among the lowest of surveyed countries) agreed that products and services using AI had more benefits than drawbacks.

Source: https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/

He visitied USSR many times and knew Russian well. He rejected communism after he saw the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. The intervention took less than 300 hundred lives on both sides, but McCarthy choose to support republicans, a fascist regime responsible for thousands of victims all over the World.

Edit: Wikipedia says: "he distanced himself after making visits to the Soviet Bloc, which led to him becoming a conservative Republican." but it seems that this particular intervention changed his mind, not the earlier multiple visits in Soviet Union. Wikipedia is biased as fuck.