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    1 day ago

    “Left the US” could also have been written as “Returned to his country of birth”, but that doesn’t play to the fake arms race vibes.

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    Good article. Will finish it later but it seems pretty neutral and relevant painting both the US and China’s history and recent actions. Many interesting parts, guy knows LLMs are not the way to AGI, wonder how much more the American LLM bubble can hold. From what I read, he seems like a real, brilliant scientist, driven by wanting to understand consciousness, but also an Oppenheimer type.

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        I’m actually not so sure they’re noticeably worse. It’s two sides of a shitcake.

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        “Housing is for living, not speculative investment” is a policy the CCP adopted in 2016. They are leading the globe in renewable and clean energy production. It really seems like they’re building a society for the people and creating the infrastructure to make that happen.

        I’m sure it’s not some perfect utopia, but where is? And it does seem like they’re headed to better places than we are here in the West.

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          Sure, if you’re ethnically Han Chinese and toe the party line.

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              Housing bubble. China screwed up so bad speculating investments in housing that they literally created ghost towns. Not a ghost town, multiple ones - domestic and foreign.

              They had no choice but to say that because their attempt at it failed horribly.

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              Definitely, by Soros Xi!

              people can talk propaganda even without being paid if they were made to believe it. and you know this is not specific to any country.

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          “Housing is for living, not speculative investment” is a policy the CCP adopted in 2016.

          Absolutely laughable statement to anybody who has actually been to China. Have you?

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              Yes, I have, although my experience is mostly limited to Beijing with a bit of time spent elsewhere. Housing is at least as expensive (relative to wages) as it is in a typical western city, despite there being graveyards of unfinished apartment blocks everywhere just outside the 5th ring road. This isn’t getting into the brutal working hours and mediocre wages, lack of free healthcare, etc etc. It isn’t really any better than the US (not that the US are good, they’re just bad in somewhat different ways)