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I personally don't like it, but hard to blame them.

Outside some Stoic altruists, this is their advantage and I'd do the same.

I would view a website that requires users to go through a lengthy verification process.

Given all the astroturfing from companies and governments, this would give a bit of trust.

Back then people didn't understand how AI was run. It should have probably made Nvidia stock actually go up. I think the other Factor, and I might just be two into AI and most people are normies, the hype around Chinese models we've learned is overblown. United States models are a league above.

Unpopular opinion: People want to be lazy and hate things that force them to work harder.

They will vocally rationalize it.

I did it. "I'm more productive work from home." But then I do dishes, take an hour break, paid.

Foucault says that when people are observing them, power is placed over them.

If you are a worker you should hate this.

If you are a customer or owner, you should like this.

But I certainly won't be automatically believing people under surveillance who make claims it makes their quality worse.

You are rooting for the dictatorship that has 0 political freedom, devalues their currency and hurts their own population, they kill their people and cover it up, and have no freedom of speech.

Why?

One has mostly been reliable, stayed peaceful towards us and is primarily concerned with their internal matters and the countries right next to it.

This is textbook international relations realism. Rising powers pretend they aren't powerful so countries don't balance against them.

Their actions are entirely predictable.

Then suddenly they will begin to do imperialism, like all great powers, and suddenly they will pretend to be stronger than they are.