Posted by akrylov 1 day ago
Just because you are first to do x, doesn't mean you are going to be the winner.
The cost of winning this race has been telling our citizen s we will replace them with robots and there is no hope for their children’s future employment.
The cost has been destroying trust as we tell citizens water and power should go to server farms and not them.
The cost has been naked power telling democracy it’s wrong and dying
I think when we discover the limits of LLM tech and tally its benefits over its cost — we may regret this win.
But don’t let me contradict a bunch of fake techno oligarchs wrapping themselves in war like patriotism to get the investments they need to keep this going.
How would your life change if your country became the second wealthiest instead of the first?
This is a ranking and competition no other country in the world gives ... about.
Why would the world care? Take Trump's threats against Greenland...actions that run completely contrary to our historical policies and treatment of our Western allies. They were alarmed, because when the leader of the most powerful military in the world makes a threat, you have to treat it seriously. Despite Trump's hubris, such an invasion did not occur because Americans, Congress, made it very clear that Trump would be impeached if he invaded our NATO ally.
Let's say China is ascendant. It is now the dominant military and economic power in the world. China is under Xi's complete dictatorial rule. Xi decides that invading Greenland is a good idea. Stopping that internally would not involve democratic processes, it would need to involve a coup.
Let's make it even more stark. If Germany had won WWII and had become the ascendant world power, would it make a difference to most countries? ABSOLUTELY YES. If there is going to be a dominant world power, the character of that nation matters.
Are there other nations with the character and institutions that could do as well or better than the U.S. has done? Sure. I can think of several nations. But let us not pretend that all nations are equally bad/good for the world.