First sensible thing I've read about chat bots. 90% of it has seemed like trying to make 'fetch' happen. https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/724284142049849345 …
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In general, there's a new tendency to assume that an idea is good simply because it's big in China. Like Japan in 80s, Soviet Union before.
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Good priors: if something is big in China and seemingly 'ahead' of US, it's more likely to reflect China constraints, not strengths
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@vgr@beaucronin That seems a rather parochial conclusion: high speed rail being a case in point.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chris_brockett@beaucronin high speed rail is a classic example of authoritarian high modernism, a failure mode of weak states.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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@vgr@beaucronin Quick, you need to tell the Japanese and French that before they make any more mistakes.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@chris_brockett @beaucronin see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State … for source of this line of criticism. It's not frivolous China-bashing.
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