@Outsideness I'd love to see your explanation for why China can't make decent jet engines.
@tcjfs I don't think it matters; America doesn't seem to be acting with intentionality towards *anything*.
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @menangahela
Only six decades ago the Chinese were eating their own babies in the nadir of human social possibility to date. Give it time. ...
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... Not even much time.
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Replying to @Outsideness @menangahela
Hmm? If they're so smart, why weren't they successful earlier?
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @menangahela
They were, episodically. But the Malthusian trap is a bitch. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @menangahela
Yeah? What about the "education hell" trap? How about the "video game addition" trap? How about the "high verbal IQ but no systemizing ability" trap?
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @menangahela
Reacting to competitive challenge with complacency is the same mistake they made in the 19th century.
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Replying to @Outsideness @menangahela
Complacency? The USA needs to sort its shit out, but not because of China - because it'll just collapse eventually otherwise! But China has its own problems, and the way you idealize it is absurd.
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @menangahela
China has its own problems, and idealizing anything is absurd, but its advance over the last six decades is unprecedented by any society in history.
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There are Chinese suburbs with the population of South Korea. Be interesting to line up the growth figures, though.
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Replying to @Outsideness @menangahela
So what is China gonna *do* with all these people packed into tiny apartments? Have them write code? For some reason China's software isn't particularly impressive.
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @menangahela
Given that the Chinese will have been the world's last high-quality bargain-basement workforce, it's going to prove unfortunate that there aren't more of them.
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