• oneser@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours 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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    6 hours ago

    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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        “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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          “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)

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                39 minutes ago

                Thanks for sharing, it’s great to hear different perspectives on these things as it feels like they aren’t so often discussed by normal people.

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          5 hours ago

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