Comment by yosefk

Too much "bleak Chinese economy" pieces in the West, not enough "China is leapfrogging us" takes. eg China uses machine learning to automate production more than is done in the West and lowers production costs, meanwhile in the West we say they're dumping/subsidizing their industry (when the reality is they don't need to, their cost is genuinely lower) and we're busy building another model predicting words or pixels while our ability to build anything from cars to artillery shells atrophies