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So now that China has had a truly major failure attached to its reputation, how does that affect the future of its superpower aspirations? (I think it’s still well short of the USSR at its peak, so it’s like a superpower-lite aspirant right now)
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+ China is top in robotics, no? What I see is: 1. Relatively high IQ, kinda innovative 2. Racially homogenous 3. Racial homogeneity as a value 4. Working well together 5. Populous as fuck Pretty hard to match, unless we mongrels pull a big kumbaya, which is what I'm hoping.
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Robotics is not labor intensive once you’ve programmed/designed them. Robots can build other robots. The smartest Chinese roboticists will be trivially easy to poach. Half of them remain after grad school in the west anyway.
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I used to work in robotics. You vastly overestimate Chinese strength there. Almost all the fundamental work happened in the west and continues to. Including work by Chinese origin technologists in the west. They are learning faster now, but from a lower base, so there’s time.
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Hands down, fundamental research is The West's Win, and it seems to be culturally based. Ok, so let's imagine that China won't be able to pipe in "creative" culture, culture is too hard to change. So it becomes an IP ripping game, but just need pretty good engineers to rip.