The Silo is a fun show, the book series it’s based on is really good too.

Because you’re a debate bro who wastes other people’s time arguing about subjects you have no clue about. If you want people to take you seriously spend a bit time educating yourself instead of speaking out of ignorance.

Study after study shows that China’s involvement in Africa has measurable positive impact, but here you are with your wikipedia link acting like you have a clue

• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3745021
• https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/
• https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/sri-lankas-debt-trap-and-the-vultures/
• https://theconversation.com/china-and-africa-ethiopia-case-study-debunks-investment-myths-177098
• https://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/assets/documents/research-and-publications/FDI-in-Ethiopia-Crescenzi-Limodio.pdf
• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gild/2021/01/26/how-chinese-investment-shape-new-growth-patterns-in-africa/
• https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-debt-trap-claims-in-africa-stem-from-us-rivalry-study
• https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/chinas-infrastructure-investment-helps-fast-track-development-in-africa-expert/
• https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/08/20/china-forgives-debt-africa/
• https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/broadband-business-formation-and-economic-growth-in-the-global-south-assessing-chinas-impact/

that’s wrong, I belive that I have more freedom in (unregulated) capitalism that’s not state backed, than in a one party system without democratic principles

Yet, you do not believe in effective ways of organizing and actually challenging the system. So, really you believe in perpetuating the system while paying lip service to the idea of change.

that’s not true, I want others to be as free as I am

You clearly don’t since you reject practical methods that have been proven that free people from capitalism.

you’re literally making this up, I sayed that western germany was ALMOST as economicaly strong as the entire ussr, which is true

It’s not true, and never has been true in any meaningful sense.

this says something completely different

and yet https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine/index.html

that statement itself wouldn’t be true if the russian economy was growing and they were exporting their war assets, but the opposite is the case, they produce the war assets to burn them on the battlefield and their economy also isn’t looking good

Meanwhile in the real world, Russian economy is booming, and the World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025

The IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html

Thanks for providing further evidence of you being utterly divorced from reality.

that’s because you’re an ignoramus

Chinese investment in Africa has had ‘Significant And Persistently Positive’ long-term effects https://www.eurasiareview.com/01022021-chinese-investment-in-africa-has-had-significant-and-persistently-positive-long-term-effects-despite-controversy/

So, what you’re actually saying you’d rather live under capitalism because it’s not impacting your freedom, and you don’t care about others. Meanwhile, claiming that western Germany was economically stronger than the USSR is another example of you being divorced from reality. It’s the same sort of logic people applied to modern Russia comparing its GDP to Italy. Now, it turns out Russian industrial production is higher than all of the west combined. This is how capitalism rots people brains, they start thinking imaginary numbers are more important than material reality.

It’s a tool with some interesting capabilities. It’s very much in a hype phase right now, but legitimate uses are also emerging. Automatically generating subtitles is one good example of that. We also don’t know what the plateau for this tech will be. Right now there are a lot of advancements happening at rapid pace, and it’s hard to say how far people can push this tech before we start hitting diminishing returns.

For non generative uses, using neural networks to look for cancer tumors is a great use case https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9904903/

Another use case is using neural nets to monitor infrastructure the way China is doing with their high speed rail network https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/china-now-using-ai-to-manage-worlds-largest-high-speed-railway-system

DeepSeek R1 appears to be good at analyzing code and suggesting potential optimizations, so it’s possible that these tools could work as profilers https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/llamacpp-pr/

I do think it’s likely that LLMs will become a part of more complex systems using different techniques in complimentary ways. For example, neurosymbolics seems like a very promising approach. It uses deep neural nets to parse and classify noisy input data, and then uses a symbolic logic engine to operate on the classified data internally. This addresses a key limitation of LLMs which is the ability to do reasoning in a reliable way and to explain how it arrives at a solution.

Personally, I generally feel positively about this tech and I think it will have a lot of interesting uses down the road.

You are wrong about vanguarism being bad because history clear shows that it is the most reliable method for actually combating capitalism. Anarchists refuse to accept this basic reality and continue advocating approaches that have failed time and again for over a century now. It’s quite telling that this ideology exists primarily in the western imperial core.

thank you for providing an example of dialogue that’s detached from reality

A better question is which instances have dominant points of view that actually align with the material reality we inhabit. Difference of opinion is only valuable when the opinion is grounded in factual understanding of the real world. It’s valuable to have different views and interpretation of the facts, but if a view is divorced from reality then it’s just noise.

I think a bunch of ignorant politicians in the US think that’s going to be their ticket for competing with China because they refuse to invest into workers. They’re basically betting that AI would allow them to automate a lot of the jobs, and that’s how they’ll get back on top.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2724650/The_Bustling_World/

Having worked for nearly two decades in a functional language now, that’s precisely how I feel about the imperative style.