China was never playing for soft power anyway?
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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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Oh for sure, racism is everywhere, although I put it at 90% of humanity hits the racist threshold. So we have a mediocre racial mob vs. a minority creative elite that doesn't care about race. Who will win?
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Not sure why you’re so obsessed with race as a framing dimension, it doesn’t even make my top 5 in significance
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Replying to @pastablister @vgr
Ok, what are your top 5 dimensions for framing reality then? Let's call them "societal drivers", maybe?
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