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1. My question was rhetorical. It was in response to someone saying that apps outside of China are unimportant and small. 2. No single country has a monopoly o
by chaostheory 9y ago
1. My question was rhetorical. It was in response to someone saying that apps outside of China are unimportant and small.
2. No single country has a monopoly on innovation. Consequently the sharing of ideas from different locations and cultures is really important for moving forward. You miss out on this benefit when you consciously work to block it. Historically, the last time China was this arrogant about isolation, it didn't turn out too well.
Last Update: I've wasted enough time on this and probably should have put this in my original post.
If you think of sharing data as a resource, China just made it artificially scarce, made it extremely slow, and made it really costly which makes total business sense in the Information Age /s Hopefully our governments won't follow
- ebola1717 9y agoChina's not blocking out the sharing of ideas though. Until a few months ago, Andrew Ng worked at Baidu! They are isolating data, but hoarding data is a competitive advantage in a way that isolating knowledge isn't.
- chaostheory 9y ago> China's not blocking out the sharing of ideas though. Until a few months ago, Andrew Ng worked at Baidu! Ok they are bottlenecking data... As I've already mentioned this is an extremely inefficient way to share data. Sharing data using physically present word of mouth is a lot more expensive and slower than sharing it instantly via an open internet connection.
- processing 9y agoPeak Hacker News "Sharing data using physically present word of mouth is a lot more expensive and slower than sharing it instantly via an open internet connection."
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIf stating obvious facts is "peak Hacker News" then that's good, isn't it?
- dwighttk 9y agoas long as circumlocution is valued.
- Footkerchief 9y agoI've read that circumlocation is cheaper and faster.
- Sacho 9y agoIs there any indication that scientists predominantly use whatsapp, so this would block innovation? When you say "this is an extremely inefficient way to share data", what do you mean? It's not like China doesn't have its own messengers, and it's not like whatsapp is the only way for people to communicate over the Internet..
- detaro 9y agoYou commonly hear scientists complain that they spend a lot of time trying VPNs and working around the latest crop of GFW restrictions, yes. Whatsapp isn't the only limited thing in China.
- peoplewindow 9y agoLast I heard academics had started getting filtered internet connections too, and were finding it hard to collaborate with non-Chinese academics as a consequence.
- dreamfactored 9y agoAny effective government will rightly 'isolate' itself from this kind of pollution - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2017/09/facebook_was_built_to_enable_bad_actors_like_russia.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogatio...