Look at China. You have arguably more STEM talent in China through a much more rigorous selection process, as well as a lot more centralized direction under a

Look at China. You have arguably more STEM talent in China through a much more rigorous selection process, as well as a lot more centralized direction under a more authoritarian government, with a large amount of funding. Yet China hasn't managed to take over the world. You would think that they if they wanted to become the worlds primary economic power, and they could throw enough compute at the problem (like an AGI would), they would have figured out how to do it by now.