holy hell. Mixed feelings here. On the one hand, this probably means China will never replace the US as the hegemon.
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On the other hand, if W Civ does crumble, do the lights everywhere go out because China can't pick up the baton?
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No reason to think lack of scientific integrity isn't a fixable problem. China just needs to be made to worry about it more.
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... If it was considered something closer to treachery than a culturally-excusable misdemeanor, it would drop off fast.
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But it's only a specific instance of a general social more that goes back millennia.
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Examination-based IQ selection tends to foster clever side-searches for cheat-codes. Roughly fixable with fairly minor tweaks IMHO.
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Plenty of other deep "Confucian" cultural features, long thought to be insuperable obstacles, de-dysfunctionalized without great trouble. ..
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... When practicality is a revered core cultural principle, it's amazing how much can be sorted out.
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