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It's a positive and a negative.

It makes people less happy, sure.

But it's also the reason why German machinery has the good reputation it has. Because even if it works pretty great already, somebody will find a detail to "complain" about and improve it.

It uses methane and oxygen, could that be easily mass produced from solar or hydro? It may turn out better than burning fossil fuel in a plane. Just a thought, no idea if true or not.

Also, Starship doesn't need pilots, so freight transport could be automated.

On the other hand, I wonder about noise emission. Probably much louder than planes.

Interesting, how many negative comments this gets. People seem to love monoculture run by committees.

This is exactly what OSS is all about. Take a code base and develop it into different directions. Both code and organization. And "natural selection" will have some forks die and others strife.

Not just that, but it will also understand what everybody is talking about on WeChat etc. It can scan every word that 1.4 billion people say to each other and alert the authorities whenever a "newly forbidden topic" is even insinuated. No "river crabs" anymore, the GPT would understand it!

Rich Chinese are getting their money out of the country, because if their money is in China, they don't really own it. The CCP could take it any day and there would be nothing they could do about it.

And then there is Western capital, used to rule of law and personal property. They don't see that reality as a realistic threat. So they keep pumping money into China. It will work. Until it doesn't. And then the CCP will simply take it.

But somehow I suspect that it will be a "too big to fail" situation, and all those losses will be socialized in the West, i.e. the Western governments pay for the losses probably.