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Consequently you end up with a world, like the incompetent idiots in the FBI who thought traitor Robert Hanssen was a computer expert because he knew how to plug one in an turn it on.
Thieves do not have much incentive to develop the type of skills that lead to invention.
An old trope that had truth to it at one time.
But we need to look beyond such simple equations at this point. AI is being fashioned against us here AND in China—and the two have more in common than we would like to comtemplate.
Also, most “innovation” as we like to think it that led to our Big Tech “stars”, was really centrally seeded and deceptively deployed into the private sector.
China is very good at applying existing knowledge and technology. It has very smart and well trained technicians and scientists. They will work harder and faster than any I have seen elsewhere.
China’s social and political system though generally suppresses novelty and creativity. Being the bureaucratic and political control-freaks they are, It has always a very tough debate for the CCP how much freedom and creativity to allow, in exchange for economic development and a more vibrant society. Xi Jinping has tightened those screws a lot.
But the CCP will therefore make acquiring others’ technology through all means possible a top priority.
Why innovate, when you can steal it?
Of course, that will undermine and ultimately put an end to innovation, but then they will no longer have those pesky innovators to compete with. “Progressives” crave power, not progress.
As we are finding that self learning, evolving a.i. (key: i) discovers on its own that American founding principles are best, tyranny doesn’t work and oh yeah... black culture is dangerous.
A lot of a.i.s become racist pretty quickly. It’s a logical conclusion.
Asians IQ is all spatial, low in creativity. Either due to conformist culture, or low testosterone, speculated to be a component of creativity.
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