Elections are just the surface of the problem. The real issue is who owns the factories and funds the research. In the West that’s largely done by private capital, putting it entirely outside the sphere of public debate. Even universities are heavily reliant on funding from companies now, which obviously influences what their programs focus on.

that’s true yeah

or maybe it’s the capitalist relations and not the technology that’s the actual problem here

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this evidence ignoramus

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

Social mobility in China being far better than in the US https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&amp%3Blocations=CN&amp%3Bstart=2008

Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI

Meanwhile, billionaires are fleeing China https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/china-billionaires-declining-rich-list-13830670.html

oh no the lib bible disagrees in face of all evidence, must be true 🤣

O7

just another way to make the experiment

Russia is definitely sending a message here, I thought it was interesting that abc doesn’t mention it by name though.

And to the Europeans as well, as any war with Europe will immediately result in Europe going dark.

this one’s pretty short at least :)

Oh no, the state in China prevents rich assholes from buying up and hoarding property, how terrible!

a couple more

Incidentally, I can’t recommend this book enough, it lays out how this whole mindset was cultivated since the end of WW2.

I suspect there’s also an aspect of chauvinism here at play. If people already have a predisposition to see themselves as superior, then these kinds of stories feed into what they already want to believe.

Right, I think the key difference is that we have a feedback loop and we’re able to adjust our internal model dynamically based on it. I expect that embodiment and robotics will be the path towards general intelligence. Once you stick the model in a body and it has to deal with the environment, and learn through experience, then it will start creating a representation of the world based on that.

Aww y’all still mad your color revolution failed?

European politicians are too busy seeing how far their tongues can reach up Trump’s ass to do that.

I would bet money in it happening at this point, and all the European ‘leaders’ pretending like it’s completely normal.

It seemed pretty clear to me. If you have any clue on the subject then you presumably know about the interconnect bottleneck in traditional large models. The data moving between layers often consumes more energy and time than the actual compute operations, and the surface area for data communication explodes as models grow to billions parameters. The mHC paper introduces a new way to link neural pathways by constraining hyper-connections to a low-dimensional manifold.

In a standard transformer architecture, every neuron in layer N potentially connects to every neuron in layer N+1. This is mathematically exhaustive making it computationally inefficient. Manifold constrained connections operate on the premise that most of this high-dimensional space is noise. DeepSeek basically found a way to reduce networking bandwidth for a model by nearly 70 percent by using manifolds to route communication.

Not really sure what you think the made up nonsense is. 🤷