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Let's say China has 20 times less creativity than the west. This means still more creativity than most western countries because of their size.
by riffraff 7y ago
Let's say China has 20 times less creativity than the west. This means still more creativity than most western countries because of their size.
- wolco 7y agoSociety may not support that creativity in terms of production output while in the west you have creative multipliers.
- yarg 7y agoThat's really not how statistics works though. Imagine a pair of overlapping normal distributions (https://www.google.com/search?q=overlapping+normal+distributions https://www.google.com/search?q=overlapping+normal+distribut...), the ratio between the two is far from fixed, and the further of centre you go, the greater the discrepancy. My suspicion is that an authoritarian regime is likely to offset the centre of the creativity distribution. But that's not the full extent of what I suspect of the Chinese population's distribution in terms of creativity. My thoughts are that it's more likely to be a partially truncated normal distribution, with a rapid and significant drop off at the high end of the creativity spectrum. This is all pure conjecture, but if either possibility is true it would be significantly restricting to Chinese creativity, and if both are true it would be devastating (especially in terms of their ability to compete).
- yarg 7y agoFurther off centre.
- whoevercares 7y agoHave you ever attended top tier AI/CV/graphics conf? You should go once
- yarg 7y agoYou are right however, that China does have a significant advantage in terms of scale due to their population - and this is an advantage compounded by low pay and a lack of worker rights.