This is a complete joke. The malicious clowns behind this should be removed from power and prevented from ever holding any position of power in any form of governance system.
Gonna be interesting to see how the ecosystem looks like 2-3 years, I'd be expecting some drastic changes compared to today.
As a fellow wheel reinventer, I admire their audacity. It's the sort of thing that makes me wish my country was like China.
I admire their governance ability to have long term plans.
The sheer scale of their production ambitions in so many fields and their energy build out is insane.
The fact those plans also have subclauses ensuring the party elite are made even more wealthy and powerful is less alluring.
Our oligarchs do that too and all we get in return is declining infrastructure and paranoia.
You are, of course, right. All of the downsides with none of the benefits.
In which major democratic western country don't the elites get wealthier? In fact, the top 10% asset owners saw the biggest post-covid recovery, which the rest stagnated or are in decline. Not defending China but are own oligarchs are just as savvy at enriching themselves while screwing us over.
Reading about Thiel's "Dialog" meeting, I wonder, do China have their own equivalent of such blatant corruption meetings?
Even if they do, do they discuss "compliance collars" for the security guards in those meetings? I have a feeling they don't.
The future the Chinese elite wants to own, at least seems to include us as something other than a zombie army at the gates of their post apocalyptic bunkers. That's a low bar I know, and not much to be hopeful about, but our elites aren't even meeting it.
GPU's are still a fair way behind with Moore Threads S80 being a better example of their high end. I suspect they have some major driver issues because they current benchmark far below what that silicon should be able to do. https://en.mthreads.com/product/S80
There is also the pressure to have them innovate on older process nodes so they can make this stuff domestically. For instance Huawei is doing what they call 'logic folding' which is basically just stacking dies in a way that ends up reducing the overall size of chip features. Not sure how it addresses thermals but it is a cool idea.
Sorry this article is a bit of LLM rubbish but you get the point - https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/huawei-logic-folding-moores-la...
China is hungry and that is driving them to take these moon shots, they may just make it.
PR China is still pretty poor (around 31k$ gdp per capita adjusted for purchasing power) and its growth has lost a bit of steam recently.
You should wish your country to be more like Taiwan or South Korea. Or Singapore.
My country is currently at about a third of that.
Total fertility rate for all of those countries is close to 1.0, including China's. They are dying societies.
You might want to compare Singapore with a city like NYC or London, not with a territorial state. It's pretty normal around the world for cities to be replenished mainly by people moving in.
(Of course, to be fair you then also need to compare GDP per capita against other cities. And they usually do a lot better than territorial countries that include a lot of hinterland.)
Singapore was and is build on the back of immigrants. Replacing ourselves with kids instead of immigrants would be the big change.
No this is a non-sequitur.
Low fertility only means that the affected society grows smaller. This is only equivalent to "slow death" when it persists for centuries until the society is actually dead.
Sadly it appears the current US administration is also determined to undo any progress by minorities over the centuries.
Is it competitive enough? Probably no. Is there a software ecosystem for Chinese hardware yet? Probably no. But you know it will come soon.
That's what Cloudflare will be for.
Video selfies and government document upload on hardware attested phones, of course.
Depends on who has their ears in terms creating policies around technology.
Without that you are not using Claude 10. It would not be shocking at all at some level of capability that running open source models anonymously is made a crime.
To pretend there is not huge issues with a laissez faire attitude as these models progress I think is intellectually dishonest and performative.
It can happen to anyone