RE: https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/117360706453767084
This, and a whole lot of the other stuff around China’s rise in science and tech, honestly has almost nothing to do with what’s regularly blamed, and is almost entirely due to the failures and idiocies of the western capital class. If we wanted to drop a trillion dollars into pretty much any kind of science or practical engineering (instead of wasting it on AI) we could do the same. But we don’t.
Dan Sugalski
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2026-09-30 15:35:46 UTC
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