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I'd prefer to think there are more possibilities than that.

> “So when people are worried about surveillance, of course, there are huge dangers there, but you know, you will have far fewer rights if America’s not in the lead.”

Lose your rights to Vance/Thiel or to China. Thank you tech community for giving us that.

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Between those, which has significantly improved people’s lives more?

Neither?

China delivers affordable versions of everything only rich people would have if rich people had their way.

The true test will be if their locally run LLMs, while heavily sandboxed and whitelist-only network restricted, are useful to the average man. Might be worth some real respect

It certainly isn't Peter Thiel, Alex Karp or JD Vance. Nor is it the vast majority of "big tech" who have all undeniably made the world significantly worse for a few extra advertising dollars.

But, hey, I'm sure all the Meta engineers think they're doing transformative, important things and not just like, figuring out clever ways to give teenage girls depression faster.

> I'm sure all the Meta engineers think they're doing transformative, important things

I wouldn’t give them the benefit of the doubt at this point in time. A decade ago I would, but not now.

Yeah anyone who’s worked at meta in the last ten years I would not hesitate to label as a creep.

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