Oh yeah!! Lunar New Year eve is a truly special day. So much food is being prepared at the moment.

Have a great time @xiangcai

Well, all I can add is that AI here in China is centered on diffusing applicability. Various models are being used across a wide swath of manufactures. QC has been the main application I’ve seen reducing the task to seconds. Nobody here cares about creating “God in a box”. Focus is on making money and cutting costs.

Suspect it doesn’t matter given that the Chinese have already moved ahead with PicoClaw. The speed of that going down had me literally laugh out loud.

Oh, it goes well beyond what you think. Roughly half of what China now exports is intermediate goods. Even if you found an item that was “Made in America” - for example - upwards of one-fifth of the inputs into that product would be sourced from China. I have a whole chapter in the essay addressing the culpability of Corporate America.

Moreover, this is at the core of the entire rare earth issue. China controls inputs into everything nowadays. Rare earth access is but a symptom of a far greater problem.

Very very well said and yet what it is you’ve described are the actions of a dwindling few. Soliciting engagement on the subject of China almost always devolves into ad hominem attacks.

I’m a red blooded America who just so happens to have lived in Shanghai for 30 years. My objective is purely civic in nature. To describe the world as it is rather than as others wish it to be. To be the one who picks up the lance and go about tilting at the windmills. With love and my respect.

Am just getting started @lemon Had to break down the entire essay into roughly 12 parts so there is a great deal more to follow. Solved for the “long post” issue so will send out one new installment over the next week or so.

Any questions you might have or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I think…. I think it might have worked.