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For sure, technology is self reinforcing in nature. All the investments China made work together to allow them to build bigger and better things going forward.

Meanwhile, there's little indication that Chinese system is prone to insane leaders. If you look at the history of leadership in PRC, it's been competent and very much sane throughout its history. A big reason for it is that there's an arduous and highly competitive selection process for moving up in the system. A random yahoo with a bunch of money can't just become the president of China.

Consider the road Xi had to walk to get where he is today. Whether you come from a grassroots family or a political family, you have to go through every step. Only in this way, you can reach the top of power.

To get started, you have to own a college degree, at least for most Chinese govt officials. You have to take the national civil service examination and be admitted. In 2019, 92000 people took the exam and 14537 were admitted, with the admission rate of 1.58%.

The ruling party in China is the CPC. In addition, there are 8 other parties. You have to join one of them. If your ideal is to become the supreme leader of China then you join the CPC. You will be one of the 90 million CPC members. They are all your competitors.

Now, you've become a grassroots official. Your administrative level is "staff", while President Xi's administrative level is "national level principal". There are 10 levels of gap between you and President Xi. Each level requires several years and multiple examinations.

In China, "Organization Department" at all levels are responsible for the management of civil servants. Every civil servant has to take part in the grade assessment every year. The assessment is usually conducted by your colleagues, subordinates and superiors by voting. The result of the assessment is related to your future.

If you work hard and are lucky enough, you will become the highest official in a district or county. As President Xi did in 1983, he became the highest official in Zhengding County. You have to own the experience to manage hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

Next, you have to become a city official in charge of industry or agriculture or education or commerce. Then, you become a mayor. It will take you another few years. In 1990, President Xi became the top leader of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.

Now, if you want to become a governor then you need to repeat your previous work. The difference is that your responsibilities are greater and your work is more onerous. In 2000, President Xi became governor of Fujian Province.

After becoming the governor of a relatively small province, you have to be the governor of a relatively large province. Or you can go to border areas, such as Xinjiang or Tibet. President Hu Jintao, the former leader of China, was once the governor of Tibet.

The Political Bureau is one of the central leading bodies of the CPC. You must be a member of it. Members of the Political Bureau are elected by the plenary session of the Central Committee. It's your next goal.

Deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) are members of the highest organ of state power in China and are elected in accordance with law. You also have to be one of the NPCs.

If you can become a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, it usually consists of seven or nine people, which means that you have entered the core of China's state power. In 2007, President Xi was elected.

Similarly, different standing committees are responsible for managing different areas of the country. Through fierce competition, you finally become the top leader of China. In 2012, President Xi succeeded. He still spent 40 years on this road!

The above is what anyone who has ambitions to become China's top leader has to go through. It is based on a strict selection system and the election of deputies to the people's Congress at all levels.

It makes sense, China started behind technologically and the only way they could catch up was by having a higher rate of technological progress. Now that they've caught up, faster rate of advancement necessarily means they're starting to surpass the west.

I see you're already on the second stage.

The fact that Russia will win has been the expert consensus throughout the war, and at this point it's becoming obvious that it's the only possible outcome.

The question here is what makes art, is it the effort that goes into the process of producing it or the vision the artist has that matters. I'd argue that what matters is in the eye of the beholder. If you look at an image and it evokes an emotion or a feeling within you, then it's meaningful to you. How the image was produced hardly matter in my opinion.

I used to do that and people complained archive wasn't working with their adblockers, so settled on linking the original and dumping archive in the body.

I bet MechaHitler was what really cinched the deal.

I can tell you for a fact that they can. However, even managing boilerplate and repetitive code is a huge benefit. Furthermore, these tools are great at combing through code bases and helping you find where you need to make changes in code. If you haven't actually used these tools in a real project yourself then you don't really know what they're capable of.

Indeed, self hosing has to be the way forward.

I agree that it can act as a complimentary vision to socialist realism, and the critique is of what's missing rather than anything being inherently wrong with it.

It depends on the task and the specific LLM. My experience is that they can do a lot of things effectively nowadays, and they're improving rapidly.

Exactly, the recognition of the central role of labour in society has to be part of any genuinely socialist aesthetic. Solar-punk sells a vision of a comfortable society while ignoring the labour that underpins it, how things are created is left entirely up to your imagination. Thus, solar-punk aesthetic becomes equally compatible with people enjoying the fruits of their own labour or a society built on slavery.

Petit Jupiter strikes again.

Solar-punk feels like of like an inversion of socialist realism to me. Socialist realism celebrates the worker as creator with muscles straining, tools in hand, actively building the world. Labor is heroic, collective, and visibly transformative. The aesthetic screams: WE made this. On the other hand, solar-punk envisions society after the work is done with comfortable citizens enjoying green tech built by unseen hands. The aesthetic whispers: Look what grew while no one was laboring.

Correction, Taiwan will continue to exist as a Chinese province, but the rogue regime the US is backing there will be gone.

Burial at Sea/Hymn to the Immortal Wind by MONO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEvpqR6B8ns

A more accurate headline would've been: Empire demands fealty from its vassals.

very much agree with all taht

I find it helps to develop a mindset of thinking in terms of dynamic systems where you can identify forces acting upon the system and try to understand likely ways the system will evolve as whole. For example, if we're dealing with capitalist relations be it today or a century ago, the forces within the system form an invariant. We have people who own substantial capital and those who do not. Their interests form a contradiction because they are fundamentally opposed to each other. If I'm a business owner then my desire is to minimize my costs an maximize profits, while if I'm a worker selling my labour I want to maximize my salary and benefits. Once we frame the problem in these terms we can try to think about potential resolutions to these contradictions, and that's where historical record becomes informative. If we can identify similar situations in the past, they can inform us on what we can expect going forward.