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China is actually just one person (Xi) acting in perfect unison and its purpose is not to benefit its own people, but solely to undermine the West.

dr_dshiv 2y ago
This explains so much. It’s just malice, then? Or some demonic force of evil? What does Occam’s razor suggest? Oh dear
- layer8 2y ago
  Always attribute to malice what can’t be explained by mere stupidity. ;)
- buryat 2y ago
  payback for Opium Wars
- pjc50 2y ago
  You missed the really obvious sarcasm.
  - nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
    Never a true a word as said in jest
Zamicol 2y ago
If China is undermining the West by lifting up humanity, for free, while ProprietaryAI continues to use closed source AI for censorship and control, then go team China. There's something wrong with the West's ethos if we think contributing significantly to the progress of humanity is malicious. The West's sickness is our own fault; we should take responsibility for our own disease, look critically to understand its root, and take appropriate cures, even if radical, to resolve our ailments.
- bdangubic 2y ago
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- Krasnol 2y ago
  > There's something wrong with the West's ethos if we think contributing significantly to the progress of humanity is malicious. Who does this? The criticism is aimed at the dictatorship and their politics. Not their open source projects. Both things can exist at once. It doesn't make China better in any way. Same goes for their "radical cures" as you call it. I'm sure Uyghurs in China would not give a damn about AI.
  - drysine 2y ago
    > I'm sure Uyghurs in China would not give a damn about AI. Which reminded me of "Whitey On the Moon" [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
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colordrops 2y ago
Can't tell if sarcasm. Some people are this simple minded.
- rightbyte 2y ago
  Ye, but "acting in perfect unison" would be a superior trait among people that care about these things which gives it a way as sarcasm?
- suraci 2y ago
  many americans do seem to view Chinese people as NPCs, from my perspective, but I don't know it's only for Chinese or it's also for people of all other cultures it's quite like Trump's 'CHINA!' yelling I don't know, just a guess
Flemilkok 2y ago
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rambojohnson 2y ago
that's the McCarthy era red scare nonsense still polluting the minds of (mostly boomers / older gen-x) americans. it's so juvenile and overly simplistic.
mackyspace 2y ago
China is doing what it's always done and its culture far predates "the west".

dr_dshiv 2y ago

This explains so much. It’s just malice, then? Or some demonic force of evil? What does Occam’s razor suggest? Oh dear

layer8 2y ago
Always attribute to malice what can’t be explained by mere stupidity. ;)
buryat 2y ago
payback for Opium Wars
pjc50 2y ago
You missed the really obvious sarcasm.
- nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
  Never a true a word as said in jest

Zamicol 2y ago

If China is undermining the West by lifting up humanity, for free, while ProprietaryAI continues to use closed source AI for censorship and control, then go team China. There's something wrong with the West's ethos if we think contributing significantly to the progress of humanity is malicious. The West's sickness is our own fault; we should take responsibility for our own disease, look critically to understand its root, and take appropriate cures, even if radical, to resolve our ailments.

bdangubic 2y ago
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Krasnol 2y ago
> There's something wrong with the West's ethos if we think contributing significantly to the progress of humanity is malicious. Who does this? The criticism is aimed at the dictatorship and their politics. Not their open source projects. Both things can exist at once. It doesn't make China better in any way. Same goes for their "radical cures" as you call it. I'm sure Uyghurs in China would not give a damn about AI.
- drysine 2y ago
  > I'm sure Uyghurs in China would not give a damn about AI. Which reminded me of "Whitey On the Moon" [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4

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colordrops 2y ago

Can't tell if sarcasm. Some people are this simple minded.

rightbyte 2y ago
Ye, but "acting in perfect unison" would be a superior trait among people that care about these things which gives it a way as sarcasm?
suraci 2y ago
many americans do seem to view Chinese people as NPCs, from my perspective, but I don't know it's only for Chinese or it's also for people of all other cultures it's quite like Trump's 'CHINA!' yelling I don't know, just a guess

Flemilkok 2y ago

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rambojohnson 2y ago

that's the McCarthy era red scare nonsense still polluting the minds of (mostly boomers / older gen-x) americans. it's so juvenile and overly simplistic.

mackyspace 2y ago

China is doing what it's always done and its culture far predates "the west".