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The US and China are at war. The last Cold War kind of gave us the internet so hopefully we fund some big ambitious tech this time too.
by sub7 7y ago
The US and China are at war. The last Cold War kind of gave us the internet so hopefully we fund some big ambitious tech this time too.
- wffurr 7y agoUbiquitous surveillance and facial recognition seems to be the tech innovation from this one. I wouldn't be so hopeful about "ambitious big tech".
- FpUser 7y agoNice war, given the amount of trade between the countries. Sure they call each other names but when it comes to money the rest be damned.
- downerending 7y agoGiven their threat this week to withhold ingredients for pharmaceuticals, we should be seriously reconsidering the amount and kind of trade we do with China. We'll see whether they continue in this, but it has a whiff of Faustian bargain at the moment.
- canada_dry 7y ago> Given their threat this week to withhold ingredients for pharmaceuticals Source?
- downerending 7y agoMost mainstream sources buried this, but search for "mighty sea of coronavirus".
- FpUser 7y agoWell then cut the trade and declare them official enemy. For now big corporations from either country laugh all their way to their banks while we conduct holy battles on HN.
- magicsmoke 7y agoProbably a mathematical model of human societies accurate enough to predict how they react to carefully tailored messages inserted into popular media and how to use this to control their behaviors. The world's most advanced militaries are useless when their societies refuse to use them or turn them on themselves in civil wars. As individuals, the effects of such a weapon would be almost invisible as it targets the behavior of humans when they interact as a group. Even if you consciously knew this is going on, society as a whole would still unconsciously follow the playbook planted for it.