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China is and has been for sometime the single greatest threat to world peace and security. To be fair, the other hemisphere will say the same about the United S

China is and has been for sometime the single greatest threat to world peace and security. To be fair, the other hemisphere will say the same about the United States. All things being equal, I'm more worried about China than anyone else.

solardev 3y ago
Why do you think that? Over the last couple decades China absorbed a few neighboring regions (namely Hong Kong and Tibet) and made a bunch of investments in small countries. Meanwhile we (the US) destroyed Afghanistan for no real reason, blew Iraq up for fun, forestalled all the real climate negotiations, polluted space with tiny satellites, nearly caused ourselves a civil war, and unleashed AI for the lolz. What had China done that could be seen as equally destabilizing?
- davidguetta 3y ago
  !remindme 10years
  - solardev 3y ago
    The eagle, the dragon, the bear... all under the iron boot of the robot?
- hmmmcurious1 3y ago
  You don't seem biased at all
  - solardev 3y ago
    As an American living through all that, it's hard not to be. China has been the bogeyman as long as I've been alive, but it's my own country that scares me the most. The US is really good at distracting the public with jingoism and foreign enemies. We're really bad at cleaning up after ourselves, whether in war or at home (at least since WW2).
- n6h6 3y ago
  "Unleashed AI"? Really? I don't know what you think has happened, but we've just barely got realistic chatbots. Skynet is nowhere near invented yet.
  - solardev 3y ago
    It's more the international jobs impacts I'm concerned about in that case
  - red-iron-pine 3y ago
    GPT-3 bots have been a thing for a while, and have been discussed here on HN heavily -- long before Chat-GPT was a thing. And if you don't think nation-state level actors have had those for a while now, to include the US, China, India, Iran, Israel, et al, then I have a bridge to sell you.
    - n6h6 3y ago
      If "China, India, Iran, Israel, et al" have had AI for a while, the US didn't really "unleash" it, did they?

solardev 3y ago

Why do you think that? Over the last couple decades China absorbed a few neighboring regions (namely Hong Kong and Tibet) and made a bunch of investments in small countries. Meanwhile we (the US) destroyed Afghanistan for no real reason, blew Iraq up for fun, forestalled all the real climate negotiations, polluted space with tiny satellites, nearly caused ourselves a civil war, and unleashed AI for the lolz. What had China done that could be seen as equally destabilizing?

davidguetta 3y ago
!remindme 10years
- solardev 3y ago
  The eagle, the dragon, the bear... all under the iron boot of the robot?
hmmmcurious1 3y ago
You don't seem biased at all
- solardev 3y ago
  As an American living through all that, it's hard not to be. China has been the bogeyman as long as I've been alive, but it's my own country that scares me the most. The US is really good at distracting the public with jingoism and foreign enemies. We're really bad at cleaning up after ourselves, whether in war or at home (at least since WW2).
n6h6 3y ago
"Unleashed AI"? Really? I don't know what you think has happened, but we've just barely got realistic chatbots. Skynet is nowhere near invented yet.
- solardev 3y ago
  It's more the international jobs impacts I'm concerned about in that case
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  GPT-3 bots have been a thing for a while, and have been discussed here on HN heavily -- long before Chat-GPT was a thing. And if you don't think nation-state level actors have had those for a while now, to include the US, China, India, Iran, Israel, et al, then I have a bridge to sell you.
  - n6h6 3y ago
    If "China, India, Iran, Israel, et al" have had AI for a while, the US didn't really "unleash" it, did they?