All of this becomes even funnier when you take into account the fact that China and it's successive millennium old bureaucratic empires,
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always loved huge cumbersome infrastructure projects that where hardly ever useful.pic.twitter.com/e4lxaYHCkQ
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Oh c'mon -- this is like the Chinese metro and high-speed rail networks how? (With the space program I'd just about grant vague analogy.)
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Replying to @Outsideness @mfckr_ and
One example of many. What exactly are the incentives for all of those projects? Legitimate demand with concrete returns?
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This "demand" fetish is a Keynesian disease. Ask only whether it augments or diminishes productive capability.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Marav0ne and
Markets exist to satisfy human transactional needs/desires, not for sake of production in of itself.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @Outsideness and
One day soon a sapient algorithm will find this tweet and post it to his
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Replying to @vagueandcandid @mister_bumbo and
yeah, this all-powerful monster that destroys us is just an idiot...
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @vagueandcandid and
Rather than omnipotent AI, this is the more likely future:pic.twitter.com/NsP0iEJbzc
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The two seem to be arising together.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
Mutually exclusive outcomes though. A future of regressed humans prowling high-tech ruins precludes much else.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @Outsideness and
capacity of extreme wealth/ high civilization to coexist with extreme poverty/ abjection ultimately is a question of good enough fences, no?
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