• BioMan
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    5 hours ago

    I really do wonder how much of the whole we must beat china narrative is being stoked by the Chinese powers-that-be finding a super cheap way to sabotage American finance and industry. Pushing their own local minibubble by comparison to what we are up to would just be a cheap cost of ‘doing business’.

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      1 hour ago

      It seems the Chinese government is quite sincere in its ‘sci-tech’ ambitions, which include AI. Though there doesn’t seem to be the same levels of sci-fi fantasism as in Silicon Valley, just a more practical focus on seizing the high-tech global frontier and supertuning its surveillance-capitalist model.

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        58 minutes ago

        True! Still, you have to admit it’s quite the opportunity to exploit silicon valley sfi-fi fanatacism into a whole series of own goals.