10-04-2021
, 04:08 PM
The support animal thing is just Americans doing what we've always done which is pushing the edges/finding workarounds to the rules--it all just goes under the broad heading of the American Way imo.
10-12-2021
, 10:08 AM
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China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says
October 10, 2021,
China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.
China, the world’s second largest economy, is likely to dominate many of the key emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and genetics within a decade or so, according to Western intelligence assessments.
Nicolas Chaillan, the Pentagon's first chief software officer who resigned in protest against the slow pace of technological transformation in the U.S. military, said the failure to respond was putting the United States at risk.
"We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion," he told the newspaper. "Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal."
China was set to dominate the future of the world, controlling everything from media narratives to geopolitics, ...
...Chinese companies, Chaillan said, were obliged to work with their government and were making "massive investment" in AI without regard to ethics.
He said U.S. cyber defences in some government departments were at "kindergarten level"....
October 10, 2021,
China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.
China, the world’s second largest economy, is likely to dominate many of the key emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and genetics within a decade or so, according to Western intelligence assessments.
Nicolas Chaillan, the Pentagon's first chief software officer who resigned in protest against the slow pace of technological transformation in the U.S. military, said the failure to respond was putting the United States at risk.
"We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion," he told the newspaper. "Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal."
China was set to dominate the future of the world, controlling everything from media narratives to geopolitics, ...
...Chinese companies, Chaillan said, were obliged to work with their government and were making "massive investment" in AI without regard to ethics.
He said U.S. cyber defences in some government departments were at "kindergarten level"....
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China overtakes US in AI research
Jockeying for supremacy intensifies as two sides grapple with security issues
AUGUST 10, 2021
China is overtaking the U.S. in artificial intelligence research, setting off alarm bells on the other side of the Pacific as the world's two largest economies jockey for AI supremacy.
In 2020, China topped the U.S. for the first time in terms of the number of times an academic article on AI is cited by others, a measure of the quality of a study. Until recently, the U.S. had been far ahead of other countries in AI research.
One reason China is coming on strong in AI is the ample data it generates. By 2030, an estimated 8 billion devices in China will be connected via the Internet of Things -- a vast network of physical objects linked via the internet. These devices, mounted on cars, infrastructure, robots and other instruments, generate a huge amount of data....
China overtakes US in AI research
Jockeying for supremacy intensifies as two sides grapple with security issues
AUGUST 10, 2021
China is overtaking the U.S. in artificial intelligence research, setting off alarm bells on the other side of the Pacific as the world's two largest economies jockey for AI supremacy.
In 2020, China topped the U.S. for the first time in terms of the number of times an academic article on AI is cited by others, a measure of the quality of a study. Until recently, the U.S. had been far ahead of other countries in AI research.
One reason China is coming on strong in AI is the ample data it generates. By 2030, an estimated 8 billion devices in China will be connected via the Internet of Things -- a vast network of physical objects linked via the internet. These devices, mounted on cars, infrastructure, robots and other instruments, generate a huge amount of data....
10-22-2021
, 04:28 AM
11-04-2021
, 11:36 AM
The US and West may be able to slow China and give it several set backs by banning Chinese megaCorps and thus destroying their viability but then cannot stop China as China is correct that they can grow substantially, for many, many, many years by just feeding their own growing consumption and holding on to their silk road allies.
But the bigger challenge for China will be that their plan for world dominance (something I believe they can achieve) is multigenerational. The are very smartly trying to build it to last, wanting to exceed the time frame the US has enjoyed as the Worlds premier Super Power and that will require potentially lots of sacrifice from current generation(s) to achieve those long term ends. As those citizens get more and more of a taste of increasing freedoms, the question is will they be willing to take this journey with Chinese leadership or will they increasingly push back and undue them from within?
It will be an interesting road to watch as China travels down it.
But the bigger challenge for China will be that their plan for world dominance (something I believe they can achieve) is multigenerational. The are very smartly trying to build it to last, wanting to exceed the time frame the US has enjoyed as the Worlds premier Super Power and that will require potentially lots of sacrifice from current generation(s) to achieve those long term ends. As those citizens get more and more of a taste of increasing freedoms, the question is will they be willing to take this journey with Chinese leadership or will they increasingly push back and undue them from within?
It will be an interesting road to watch as China travels down it.
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The ‘lying flat’ movement standing in the way of China’s innovation drive
...China’s leaders have staked the country’s future on innovation. In its latest blueprint for national economic development, China has pledged to end its reliance on imported technology and to focus on domestic consumption as the primary driver of growth. At a conference in May for engineers and scientists, Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged greater self-reliance in science and technology, which would serve, he said, as “the strategic support for national development.”
China’s drive toward technological independence has raised alarm bells in the West, where a resurgent China powered by a leading technology industry is widely considered the key strategic challenge of the 21st century. But these fears all too often fail to consider the internal obstacles facing Beijing’s push toward tech supremacy. Among them is one very low-tech problem: a prevailing sense of social and professional stagnation.
The drive toward self-reliance has encountered an unlikely form of resistance in a generation of young Chinese who balk at the Party’s high-minded calls for “continued struggle” alongside an deeply engrained culture of overwork without the promise of real advancement.
They opt instead for “lying flat,” or tangping (躺平). The “lying flat” movement calls on young workers and professionals, including the middle-class Chinese who are to be the engine of Xi Jinping’s domestic boom, to opt out of the struggle for workplace success, and to reject the promise of consumer fulfilment. For some, “lying flat” promises release from the crush of life and work in a fast-paced society and technology sector where competition is unrelenting. For China’s leadership, however, this movement of passive resistance to the national drive for development is a worrying trend—a threat to ambition at a time when Xi Jinping has made grand ambition the zeitgeist of his so-called “New Era.”
‘Lying flat is justice’
The “lying flat” movement was jumpstarted in April when a post on Baidu titled “Lying Flat Is Justice” went viral on the platform. A manifesto of renunciation, the post shared the author’s lessons from two years of joblessness. The extraordinary stresses of contemporary life, the author concluded, were unnecessary, the product of the old-fashioned mindset of the previous generation. It was possible, even desirable, he argued, to find independence in resignation: “I can be like Diogenes, who sleeps in his own barrel taking in the sun.” Discussions about “lying flat” picked up pace in May, as young Chinese, over-worked and over-stressed, weighed the merits of relinquishing ambition, spurning effort, and refusing to bear hardship....
Caption reads: You want me to standup? That's not possible in this lifetime.
...China’s leaders have staked the country’s future on innovation. In its latest blueprint for national economic development, China has pledged to end its reliance on imported technology and to focus on domestic consumption as the primary driver of growth. At a conference in May for engineers and scientists, Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged greater self-reliance in science and technology, which would serve, he said, as “the strategic support for national development.”
China’s drive toward technological independence has raised alarm bells in the West, where a resurgent China powered by a leading technology industry is widely considered the key strategic challenge of the 21st century. But these fears all too often fail to consider the internal obstacles facing Beijing’s push toward tech supremacy. Among them is one very low-tech problem: a prevailing sense of social and professional stagnation.
The drive toward self-reliance has encountered an unlikely form of resistance in a generation of young Chinese who balk at the Party’s high-minded calls for “continued struggle” alongside an deeply engrained culture of overwork without the promise of real advancement.
They opt instead for “lying flat,” or tangping (躺平). The “lying flat” movement calls on young workers and professionals, including the middle-class Chinese who are to be the engine of Xi Jinping’s domestic boom, to opt out of the struggle for workplace success, and to reject the promise of consumer fulfilment. For some, “lying flat” promises release from the crush of life and work in a fast-paced society and technology sector where competition is unrelenting. For China’s leadership, however, this movement of passive resistance to the national drive for development is a worrying trend—a threat to ambition at a time when Xi Jinping has made grand ambition the zeitgeist of his so-called “New Era.”
‘Lying flat is justice’
The “lying flat” movement was jumpstarted in April when a post on Baidu titled “Lying Flat Is Justice” went viral on the platform. A manifesto of renunciation, the post shared the author’s lessons from two years of joblessness. The extraordinary stresses of contemporary life, the author concluded, were unnecessary, the product of the old-fashioned mindset of the previous generation. It was possible, even desirable, he argued, to find independence in resignation: “I can be like Diogenes, who sleeps in his own barrel taking in the sun.” Discussions about “lying flat” picked up pace in May, as young Chinese, over-worked and over-stressed, weighed the merits of relinquishing ambition, spurning effort, and refusing to bear hardship....
Caption reads: You want me to standup? That's not possible in this lifetime.
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More and more Chinese 20-somethings are rejecting the rat race and 'lying flat' after watching their friends work themselves to death
- The movement of the moment in China is "lying flat," which advocates for lying down instead of working hard.
- More Chinese youth appear to be rejecting a life and work culture of constant competition.
- "Lying flat" rejects the "9-9-6" culture that encourages people to work 12 hour days six days a week.
- "Only by lying down can humans become the measure of all things," argues the "lying flat" manifesto.
- The movement of the moment in China is "lying flat," which advocates for lying down instead of working hard.
- More Chinese youth appear to be rejecting a life and work culture of constant competition.
- "Lying flat" rejects the "9-9-6" culture that encourages people to work 12 hour days six days a week.
- "Only by lying down can humans become the measure of all things," argues the "lying flat" manifesto.
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11-04-2021
, 11:57 AM
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This is how you produce kids that get to college etc and are the kids that end up facedown in piles of their own vomit every weekend. You think you're doing the right thing--but then when they do finally get a taste of things they go overboard. You were supposed to arrive a pro
The support animal thing is just Americans doing what we've always done which is pushing the edges/finding workarounds to the rules--it all just goes under the broad heading of the American Way imo.
The support animal thing is just Americans doing what we've always done which is pushing the edges/finding workarounds to the rules--it all just goes under the broad heading of the American Way imo.
Alternatively, young people living through an incredibly stressful crisis are actively seeking out ways to take care of their mental health. I guess we’re supposed to laugh at this and take it as a sign of weakness?
Last edited by Trolly McTrollson; 11-04-2021 at 12:17 PM.
11-05-2021
, 02:42 AM
