Funny, because to me is the inability to recognize the humanity of these models that feels very anti-humanistic. When I read rants like these I think "oh look, someone who doesn't actually know how to recognize an intelligent being and just sticks to whatever rigid category they have in mind".
While dangerous a good craftsman understands the dangers and how to avoid them. I grew up in a family machine shop business and the main thing is to be aware of the moves you are making, where you are standing relative to the work, and ensure no loose clothing, jewelry or hair is flopping around. I've ran milling machines, lathes, presses, table and band saws and never had a serious injury.
I guess this is naive, but can't you use it to buy (or sell it to people who want to buy) Chinese products? It's not like China doesn't have an enormous amount and range of products on offer.
> Anyone can draw a sketch of what a house should look like. But designing a house that is safe, conforms to building regulations, and which wouldn't be uncomfortable to live in...
And now we have AIs that can take your sketch on paper and add all these complex and technical things by themselves. That's the point.
I hate this expression "the world police". The police is a force that a separate political power put in charge and authorised to use force according to precise rules. When the authorisation is self-given and the rules are made up on the way, we don't speak of police but of violent bullies, thugs or criminals.
In the EU it's safer than flying, with 0.5 deaths per 100 billion km/ passenger vs 3 deaths per 100 billion kms/ passenger. However, since an airplane flies at, let's say, six times the average speed of a train, the actual probability of dying during a 1-hour trip is almost 40 times more on a plane than on a train.
Do your stats include all rail? Because the average airplane definitely does not travel at 6 times the speed of high-speed rail (more like 2.5-3x), and definitely way faster than regional rail (in the order of 12x)
FWIW, Xu Qiliang said that war with the United States is inevitable because of the "Thucydides Trap", the theory that an incumbent power is not going to accept the rise of a competing power. In that case, the war would be started by the current ruling power, not by the rising power. I.e., by the US.
In 2014, Xi Jinping had already said "China fully understands that we need a peaceful and stable internal and external environment to develop ourselves. We all need to work together to avoid the Thucydides trap - destructive tensions between an emerging power and established powers … Our aim is to foster a new model of major country relations."
China kind of avoided the Thicydides trap already it looks like. Trump’s national security strategy document has indicated that the US is going to shore up around the Americas instead of doing the global hegemony strategy. And there have been statements made by US military people (Hegseth maybe) indicating that the US can’t militarily take on China near their coast anymore.
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