First sensible thing I've read about chat bots. 90% of it has seemed like trying to make 'fetch' happen. twitter.com/stevesi/status
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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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high speed rail is a classic example of authoritarian high modernism, a failure mode of weak states.
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see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Li for source of this line of criticism. It's not frivolous China-bashing.
