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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Replying to @vgr
Frankly I'd like to think so, but how? So we move production to India, Vietnam, et al., and we pay X% more, that'll do the trick?
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Do you think that's significantly different in impact than the outsourcing elsewhere point?
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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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This all sounds like increasing class disparity, which is likely. So you think that there will be a STEAMA elite that forgets about the race/genes game?
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Yes, that’s never been that important frankly. It’s just a narrative lens that trumpists around the world play up. The Chinese are no different from Americans on that I bet. Maybe a third are jingoistic racists, a third are pragmatic, a third have a liberal/cosmopolitan outlook.
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