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by hunglee2 1y ago
PRC probably only country which can effectively respond to a 28 days later scenario. Rest of the World? Just going to let it wash into the population
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by hunglee2 1y ago
This is not corruption, this is tribute to the Great Kahn. Tim Cook has been forced to move operations from China to India and now to the US, each decision economically unjustifiable and now to great loss to Apple's bottom line. People
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by hunglee2 1y ago
not remotely equivalent
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Unprecedented rapacity by the United States - not only forced tech transfer, and then having to pay for the privilege of being robbed; the hegemon is consuming its vassals, as it withdraws from its commitments.
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Adaptive Political Economy: Toward a New Paradigm(muse.jhu.edu)
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Hard to reconcile this with an 'America First' position.
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The Socio-Economic Model of the AI Era, Part 1: The Internet(newsletter.f2n.co)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
More pertinently, no companies are democracies. In fact, almost no social organisation has elected representatives as the executive tier. We should not be surprised that we need an effective and aligned deep state to get anything done at na
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Europe entered into its own 'century of humiliation' during Trump 1.0, the signing of unequal treaties is par for this particular course. Expect more unequal terms when EU inevitably fails to buy 750 billion in LNG, which the US w
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AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic(balajis.com)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
US auto industry is protected by US government, especially against Chinese EV's, which are today amongst the most affordable vehicles in the world. This protectionism will give domestic manufacturers the breathing space to create new m
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Myths and Lessons from a Century of American Automaking(eig.org)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
control of information shapes the cognitive environment - this is essential for the maintenance of public order and national security.
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Who Believes in China's Output Gap?(research.gavekal.com)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
AI will inevitably be an Americanising force across the globe, very few countries are going to be able to resist it. Maybe the East Asian countries have the strongest cultural moat, given the low English language proficiency and relatively
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China reins in the spiralling construction costs of nuclear power(nature.com)
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cultural genocide of the native population, who should be left alone from the apocalyptic fantasies of the evangelicals. Hope the Brazilian comes down hard on these churches
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What can I say? You have to deliver. Failure to do so means people - stupid or otherwise - will reach for alternatives.
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Careers at the Frontier: Hiring the Future at OpenAI(forum.openai.com)
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most people just want competent governance, so that the government can provide the basic needs for society - security - internal and external, public infrastructure shared as widely as possible, opportunity to work, time to play. a politica
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Emad Mostaque: The Plan to Save Humanity from AI [video](youtube.com)
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Epic Recall, Epic Fail(taipology.substack.com)
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How Automation Is Transforming Jobs in China's Manufacturing Sector(fredgao.com)
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privatisation of the US space programme. hard to know what to think about this - on the one hand, there is going to be a huge loss of institutional knowledge, which NASA likely will not be able to replace. On the other, many of these employ
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Don't Blame AI for the Rise in Recent Graduate Unemployment(employamerica.org)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Export controls are almost impossible to entirely control - narcotics are the direct analogy. Where there is demand, there will be supply - tons of money to be made in both trying to prevent it (customs officers, surveillance tech etc) and
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Revenue maximisation is an 'embedded imperative' of companies a capitalist system, so of course these jobs will be migrated to where they can be done most productively; they will then be automated as soon as the roles become simpl
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China's clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%(carbonbrief.org)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
yes, I suspect a version of the GFW may emerge from EU red tape - a 'great thicket' perhaps? However, I suspect Trump will go ape and force the EU to back down, like they already have by dropping Digital Tax. I think EU Great Fire
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by hunglee2 1y ago
EU obviously needs a Great Firewall - this would force foreign big tech to host data within the EU and subject these companies to ironclad EU legal jurisdiction. Naturally, some companies will not comply and withdraw services, clearing the

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