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Cake day: January 18th, 2020

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  • Nobody here is saying billionaires are necessary to exist. They are a product of specific historic and material conditions China found itself in. They chose to accept the problems opening up would bring because they judged that economic relations with the west would outweigh the downsides. It’s impossible to look at how China managed to develop today and argue that it was a wrong decision. Opening up allowed China to rapidly catch up technologically with the west, and to develop peacefully instead of having to devote huge amounts of resources to the military the way USSR was forced to do.



  • A socialist society retains capitalist contradictions by its very nature because socialism is the transitional stage of development when the working class takes power, but existing relations of production have not yet been abolished. This is precisely what we see in China today. There are capitalists, they do exploit people, and that is a real contradiction within Chinese society. However, that’s different from saying that these people run the society the way they do in capitalist countries. Saying China is capitalist because it allows a limited form of capitalism to exist because it’s seen as useful for development, is like saying Canada is communist because it has public healthcare.

    A good read on the subject I can recommend https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/



  • I thought it was interesting conceptually even if light on details. In the west, most application for AI has been in the realm for content generation like making images, documents, writing code. Meanwhile, in China AI systems are used for stuff like monitoring traffic systems, maintaining high speed rail networks, and other types of dynamic systems management. I haven’t really heard much about AI being applied in this way in western countries, and it seems like a far more practical use to me.