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It’s explicitly part of Chinese science and technology strategy to think outside the box and it’s what’s pushing them forward on areas like semiconductors as well.

Given the massive advantage in talent they’ve built up while the Us reverts to Drill Baby Drill we know how this ends.

Eventually the Us with push for atmospheric dimming to “fix” the negative externalities of their approach which had the nice side effect of degrading solar ….

FMl

This is a classic.

We put a human mask on a machine and are now explaining it’s apparent refusal to act like a human with human traits like deception.

It’s so insulting you have to wonder if they are using an LLM to come up with such obvious narrative shaping.

American's still very much buy into the super-villain complex regarding Russia drilled into them over the decades.

Yes, Putin does all kind of shit, but this ... please, the national security interest card from copyright holders has been an evergreen.

I love that this perspective completely misses the point in the light of GenAI, the greatest appropriation of all human creation by large american tech companies, destroying untold commercialisation.

Can't have one discusson without the other.

Singapore has a great coat of paint over its economic system so westerners think it’s pure capitalism but that’s a mirage.

- The majority of locals work directly (PSD, Government, Education) or indirectly (Temasek / GIC owned entities like CapitalLand, Surbana, Singapore Airlines, the three local banks, etc.

- 80% of the property market is directly under government control (HDB), with 20% heavily regulated but “free”

I could go on, but Singapore works precisely because it’s not free for all capitalism but a tightly controlled economy that makes sure the country benefits

It’s not so different from mid 2000s BioWare culture (where many hits were created). Games looked like a shitshow right till the end and the general answer to these conceran was faith in “BioWare magic”.

Sure, different track record but still, this kind of mindset is the norm more often than not because of an industry where failure of the project also means loss on job - so there’s no incentive whatsoever for studio level people to flag in progress failure that may lead to a studio closing.