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The speed of progress is just incredible. I've been using all kinds of different TTS engines for years now and the rapid pace of advancement is awesome. I usually generate all my audiobooks from ebooks and articles and the quality and stability (think artifacts) has gone up so much in the last few months.

Welcome to Europe.

You can disable that your content is used for training[1].

[1]: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

You would first have to define what you mean with "meaning" and "pareidolia" in this context.

Every tool that makes it easier to create art is good in my book. In years past you had to actually have the instruments and had to know how to work them. Now you can much easier learn to use simpler tools to get even better results, which just increases the amount of people that can actually realize their creativity.

I have been creating audiobooks from ebooks for a while now. I just grab an .epub and turn it into a pretty good audiobook in minutes for completely free using local models.

I mean, I trust more what she herself had to say on the matter. https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/china/story20211219-12247...

But I guess that's a controlled interview and she was forced to say that by her handlers.

At this point, these accusations are just sad. But I guess I can't convince you that I'm just a random German software engineer living and working in Germany that cares about Sino/US relations and propaganda.

What does all that have to do with you basically calling me a sockpuppet? Kind of whataboutism, isn't it?

Elucidate me, what part of my comment is whataboutism?

The irony in your allegation is palpable. Anyone not following rabid anti-china lines MUST be a sockpuppet, bot, shill, or whatever, it can't possibly be a genuine opinion, which is exactly the stance of the article in question.

As I said in another comment of mine where I was accused of the same: I generally don't comment, but I feel strongly about US-China relations, which makes me comment.

The first general secretary of NATO put it best on what NATO always was meant to be: "To keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down". If you actually look at what happened in the years to come after that quote, it perfectly fits into that narrative.

The assertion that "the US did try to bring China and Russia into the fold" is also quite acutely wrong. Remember when Yeltsin tried to join NATO after the end of the cold war, or how even Putin tried to integrate into NATO and the Western system? Who was it, that was vehemently opposed to that?

Even more so is the possible Eurasian integration which US grand strategy has always seen as one of the worst case scenarios for US hegemony.

You could call that a failure but you should assess on why it is one.

The US China strategy was also always very obvious, open up their huge population for capitalist globalization and keep the sleeping dragon in a perpetual state of democratic dysfunction and underdevelopment (just look at India). What the US didn't expect was the iron grip of the CPC on power and economy, fully rejecting US planned shock therapy. The moment China became a state that could even think about challenging US hegemony was the moment the US completely pivoted to an aggressive containment strategy.

I never understood why Americans think their military bases in Europe are any kind of altruism instead of what it actually is, military occupation and hegemonic vassalisation. Any form of European militaristic sovereignty was crushed by the US and always forced to be under the NATO umbrella.

Always accuse the other side of what you are doing.[1] I'm European and have nothing to do with China. Just because I call out racism and anti-China propaganda doesn't mean anything.

[1]: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/china-news/21091-a-500-million-...

I mostly comment on these things because I perceive these comments as overwhelmingly negative. In an age where we are close to WW3 and are subjected to increasing amounts of agit-prop, I want to provide a different viewpoint and challenge these assertions.

>However it is sus to just say that all business in an entire very large country have cooked books

You provide zero evidence for this claim besides "trust me bro".

You have US businesses collapsing left and right too and in my opinion many US businesses are not conducting ethical business either, doesn't mean I'm blatantly generalizing. These blatant generalizations are nothing more than underhanded racism.

And where are these facts?

I will never understand that this blatant racism is allowed on HN. Would you say it is OK to say "Jewish business ethics are lacking"?

It happened to Honorbuddy, a very advanced bot for World Of Warcraft made by a German company. The argument in relation to DMCA was that the bot was circumventing warden, the games anti-cheat system. The legal battle was long and they ultimately had to strip many features of the bot, until the company went under.

The truth is that this was always the case, no change happened. All that happened was that a known anti-china fake news "reporter" associated with the falun gong cult was spreading lies on twitter. See for example here: https://twitter.com/CurtExplores/status/1719334699599122690

Jack Ma never disappeared though, same case with the Chinese Tenis player. Thats the exact same thing the other poster was criticizing. Its the western media making up stories to fit the anti-china narrative.

It is actually quite funny and sad to see so many Americans fall for the most braindead fake news propaganda in regards to China.

But deficit doesn't mean inflation.

> Which sanctions are causing the problem?

Sanctions on Russia and the US refusal to allow Europe to buy cheap energy from Russia.

> Which US wars are impeding growth?

The US proxy war in Ukraine. The upcoming proxy war in Taiwan.

You forgot the two most important ones. Stop buying US treasuries/bonds and stop using USD for international transactions.

The US is just printing money like there is no tomorrow. Just look at their deficit its now approaching 2 TRILLION USD. No wonder their GDP "grew".

Whenever I read comments like this I have to chuckle. The US state department spends 300m$ each year in anti-china propaganda. The capitalist comprador narrative sellers eager to jump on the bandwagon. When one reads US military think-tank papers explaining the next strategies and then, years later, seeing them being implemented, makes one really wonder, how organically the reporting is on things like Xinjiang. But of course, when you question the narrative of iraqy WMDS, incubator killings, the usage of ABCs by the US and then finally on the question of what really is happening in Xinjiang, one really shows their bias...

I'm sorry but the projected numbers for Europe and the US are pretty pathetic.

They recently got the WS-20 and WS-15 which puts them very close to US engines.

The recent leaked picture showing a J-20 with dual WS-15 puts their development on par with F-119/F-135. Lets see how quickly they can ramp up production. It seems they have fixed their supply chain issues.