Subj : Your opinions on communism
To   : Kirk Spragg
From : michael goodwind
Date : Sun Jun 09 2024 02:56 pm

 KS> Sounds very much like what the author Ian M Banks envisioned as "The
 KS> Culture" in his Culture sci-fi series. Have you read any of his work?

Definitely one of my favourite series of books, well most of it at least, there are 3-5 of them I didn't feel fit the series or I couldn't get into.  Great recommendation though

 KS> Looking at our current attempts at AI, I'd be concerned that the AI
 KS> didn't start out corrupted/biased in the first place. I believe this is
 KS> preconceptions. I have no idea how to avoid that. 

Perhaps the 3rd or 4th generation of AI's made by AI's will start to lessen human prejudices a little bit.  I'm not entirely sure how bad the preconceptions are in GPT-4o for example, I haven't paid too much attention with my use of it to date but I have read the horror stories.  That being said something in me still feels that, even with those biases, AI would make for better leaderes and stewards of our planet and society than the humans we have in charge.  Perhaps a system where every 25-50 years, we get 4 years of AI leadership where they go in, plug the loop holes, weed out corruption, reform the systems to be more resiliant against special interests, and then hand the reigns back to us.

 KS> I believe this s a case of the first mover advantage. China started
 KS> economic reform earlier and opened up foreign investment & trade in way
 KS> that worked really well for them. This allowed China to effectively
 KS> Who knows what would have happened in an alternate timeline? One where
 KS> India wasn't torn apart by the parition that ended the Raj and didn't

Interesting, I hadn't heard that theory before, how much of a headstart did they get?  Thinking about it, India got the first mover advantage in the realm of outsourced services and China for manufacturing and commodities, I have to think that the former is going to scale better over time than the latter.  We'll see how things shake out regardless, the more I read the more I get the impression that China's economy is all built on a house of cards.

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