I think it would be more correct to say that quality control in Chinese science is very poor. I have seen top quality research, and I have also seen crap that should not have been published at all. But the sheer quantity of output means that the next big discovery in <insert field> will be from China.

OSTP is focused on removing regulations to science and tech bc they argue they are slowing us down in the AI race against China.

I don’t work on AI, but in my field I have seen the insane speed and scale of Chinese research. Now I’m from a developing country; the US can probably give better funding than we can, but I am inclined to agree that Chinese science does benefit from easier and better funding and a faster administrative process.

AI data in China is very poor likely bc of the lack of regulations

The big problem for AI research in China seems to be a shortage of high-end GPUs due to the trade wars. China is very strong in maths and comp sci, and they are finding workarounds, but it is still a pretty hard barrier.

Amazon/Bezos is probably getting some sweet federal kick backs

I think it’s more a threat against employees. The robots can be used as scabs.

which, until Jan. 2025, was one area that the U.S. had unquestionably dominated China

China had more scientists and papers well before this year. And China dominates particularly in fields like maths, computer science and manufacturing.

they are indeed going to try to replace scientists with robots

I can actually think of a lot of uses for robots in research. And, of course, there are a lot of robots in labs already; they just don’t look like humans.

It is not just honour. In the long term, acknowledging and correcting failures is the right path. The politicians are just trying to save their skin after trying to exploit the situation for petty reasons. Why should any public servant with self-respect help them do this?

but 6nm without EUV?

I read elsewhere that 5nm was already done (in the lab, not on industrial levels), and they’re planning on 3nm by 2026.

The workaround seems to be to use particle accelerators instead of EUV machines. More expensive and with lower yield, but it’ll do the job.

I don’t think they put those in smart phones anymore lol

They still have them. GSMarena lists 261 models released in the last 17 months with IR blasters. 86 in 2025.

That’s a bison, not a buffalo. Buffalo don’t have those humps.

The nerds are missing the forest for the trees. This isn’t meant to stop missiles. It’s meant to line pockets. And it will do that.

Corruption. The Awami League was the party that led Bangladesh to Independence. Recently, they tried to offer some number of government jobs to veterans of the independence struggle. This was seen as nepotism (since most such veterans would be members of the Awami League, or their friends / relatives). The initial student protests were then taken over by, depending on who you ask, religious fundamentalists, Pakistan or the CIA. The current govt is seen as a US puppet, while the BNP are seen as pro-Pakistan.

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No, India.

Afghanistan, Tajikistan and most of Kyrgyzstan are mountainous. The route is going just north of this range.

Just saw this on the news community. The linked article goes into some detail. I don’t know if these policies will achieve ‘full communism’ (or even if that would be a good thing), but education and health are good things for governments to focus on whichever way you look at it.

They violently suppressed protests (and quietly suppressed political opponents). I’m not saying they’re good people. I’m saying they’re the least bad option.

Face, meet leopard.

Good. Conscription is worse than murder; it is forcing people to give up their humanity.

Eh, it’s complicated. The Awami League protected women, workers and minorities (to some extent). Now it’ll be a three way fight between the Western-backed interim government, the army and the BNP (religious fundamentalists). Whoever wins, the people will suffer.

airborne viruses that can travel for hundreds, perhaps even thousands of miles

Airborne viruses usually travel about two metres (hence the two metre social distancing rules for Covid-19). Even if a single virus somehow travels farther - perhaps by hitching a ride on a vehicle - it is unlikely to cause a successful infection, because you need enough of them (‘viral load’) to overwhelm host defences.

I don’t know what ‘diluted toxins’ has to do with viruses and immunology since toxins are a rather different matter entirely

Vaccines work in different ways. The oldest method is what you described - attenuated viruses. Newer ones usually do not contain active viruses. They either have inactivated viruses, or, increasingly, just the viral proteins or mRNA. This reduces the risk of the vaccine causing harm to the recipient.

the immune system can ‘learn’ and ‘evolve’ over the course of a single human’s lifetime

If the person survives, their immune system may learn to identify and defend against that virus. Or it might just forget. Or it might cause random damage due to cytokine storms. Or it might forget all previous information. And in any case, some percentage of the population will die.

Thinking that infections are good because they will help increase immunity is like thinking that a country constantly being at war is good because then they’ll always be ready for war. Particularly when you can give the same immunity at a fraction of the risk using vaccines that just have some proteins or mRNA.

breathe contaminated air in the general vicinity of animals, drink water they’ve pissed or shit in, etc.

Don’t go near animals. Boil water before drinking. Simple as.

That is in fact how a vaccine/our immune system works, yes.

Vaccines work using either diluted toxins, or increasingly, proteins / RNA that just look somewhat like the real thing. The immune system works by enough of the population dying off until only those with the necessary mutations are left.

cows don’t stop existing just because we don’t eat beef.

Humans need to go close to the infected animal to get infected.

being around/eating animals all the time also builds up your immune system’s defenses against diseases that originate in those animals

Oh, so being exposed to new viruses reduces the risk of dying to a virus you got … because you were exposed to it?

Socialism is when the Prime Minister (?, I don’t know what his official title is) serves for life and his son becomes the next PM?