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Remember when unions and everyone were fighting against automation. What are you shocked at here?
The North American right and left both have become extreme Luddites over the past decade. What result did we expect? Lots of people said decades ago that we'd be left in the dust.
AI is the next field that we're doing the same thing on. The general population keeps getting influenced to hobble itself on new innovations and then we're shocked we're getting surpassed as these innovations continue to develop in other countries?
A lot of that is true, but I’m not sure it’s a major driver in the state of affairs in China vs USA.
Most of it is that we moved our manufacturing there, and they learned everything we knew and innovated on and about 15-20 years ago were basically like “ok, we’ve got it from here”
Meanwhile we keep acting like they’re stuck where they were in 1960. Even the press writes about them that way. Remember “China’s Ghost Cities”? “Who’s supposed to live there?” Well, now they’re mostly filled. The people who we gave the jobs to live there.