It’s really instructive to see how China is applying AI in pragmatic and utilitarian ways while US companies are chasing the whole AGI unicorn. I also suspect there’s a big difference stemming from the fact that China has a massive industrial base which create a lot of niches for automation that simply don’t exist in the US. So, there’s much more focus on robotics, infrastructure monitoring, factory work, and so on.
I also love how the amount of projection implicit in the comment. Like it’s exactly how the US treats countries that are reliant on trade with it.
If the US gets pushed out of West Asia, I think we’ll see peace and stability in the region emerge very quickly.
If scientists didn’t come to burgerland from the rest of the world then you’d all still be banging rocks together.
I should hope so.
Nah, China closed the gap long before people started fleeing the turd reich. The whole reason people go back to China now is the fact that it’s now ahead scientifically and technologically.
if somebody already has access to your machine, but doesn’t have root privileges
Right, hence there’s no rational reason for Iran not to get nukes now.
It’s also worth noting that Iran could create an atomic weapon (fission based) similar to what the US used on Japan very quickly with their current levels of enrichment. That could be done in around a week, and it does not require being tested ahead of time. It’s a well understood process. With the amounts of uranium Iran is known to have, they could make around 10 atomic weapons. Around three would be enough to annihilate all the major population centres in Israel.
I do not believe so.
Well they killed Khamenei who was the one opposed to Iran getting nukes, so I don’t imagine there’s anybody else particularly opposed at this point.
I’d argue Krushchev set the stage because he abolished artels which led to all the problems USSR had with light industry. Had USSR retained a mix of state industry and cooperative driven market economy, it would’ve developed in a similar way to China today except without a capitalist class.
It’s an ongoing process that’s currently happening.
Somehow I doubt they’re eager to experience a repeat of Manchuria in 1945.
You’re completely ignoring the contradictions present within China itself here. China still has a capitalist class, and it is still in the primary stages of socialism with the workers having established a class dictatorship over capital, but China is far from abolishing existing relations right now. The collapse of the west is certainly a prerequisite for the transition to any higher stage of socialism, but it will be a long time before relations start meaningfully changing with China itself, let alone the rest of the world.
Let’s not forget that USSR also saw astonishing levels of development under Stalin. The stagnation started after Khrushchev reforms. However, as I noted earlier, China can’t just flip a switch and create some sort of a moneyless society. Dismantling capitalism start with worker ownership of the means of production, and there will be a a prolonged socialist stage where existing relations have not yet been abolished, and the only thing that’s different is which class holds power.
As Stalin correctly explains here, there will be surplus product in a socialist economy and, similarly, the commodity form doesn’t die overnight. Thinking that communism involves slamming a button titled “END CAPITALISM NOW” is just romantic idealist-slop.
lmao plausible