so maybe what you do is more like a cold war. basically every nuclear power war going forward is gonna be a cold war in fact. how do you win a cold war. well you just wait until the enemy regime collapses. maybe hurry it along. certainly contain it.
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so maybe one should expect future conflict to be basically a matter of regimes undermining each other using information warfare and small attacks physical or otherwise via proxies to try and get their opponent to collapse without firing a shot b
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if this is how things play out with eg the us and china you get to test the interesting question of how socially robust a *relatively* open information ecosystem is during an information war, compared to a relatively closed one
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your response might be of course a closed ecosystem is more resilient because it can throttle information flows but im skeptical of this because theyre relatively vulnerable to preference cascades
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like how many us allied regimes have been replaced with ccp allies vs how many color revolutions have been kicked off since 2008
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relatedly i sort of suspect the fact that most chinese upper class ppl seem to come to the us for school is both a sign of us dominance culturally and a major vulnerability for chinahttps://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1378976326581809155?s=19 …
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i have no idea why china under xi permits this. it seems nuts.
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If Cold War-era America could send some of its brightest to "study" in the Soviet Union, would it? Think about it.
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i dont think so but also our universities were better
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What I'm getting at is it's an opportunity to send spies. Not just to steal technical data, but to know what's really going on in society. In this age, I think it's to prepare inoculated Chinese to fight Modern Americanism, which is infectious and has taken over the First World.
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why bother spying on the us. its all out there in the open not that I have noticed china competently adapting to this new information
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Speaking from personal experience, I've moved overseas and I can say in Russia at least, they really don't get it. Sure you can see modern America on YouTube and Twitter, but it's not the same. That said I know little about China. They may fall to this disease too, I don't know.
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Maybe you could find Spandrell somewhere, I'm no China expert. I don't know their real motives. But it's what I'd do, if I were them.
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