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I never got the issue with tech being “stolen”. Free exchange of information almost always helps everyone. The only class it doesn’t help is the capitalist class, which wants rent extraction by gatekeeping human advancements.
There are a great many things to criticise the Chinese state for. Allegedly “stealing tech” or “stealing western IP” however, has to be one of the weakest criticisms (even if it’s actually happening).
My dad brings this up when China comes up in conversation and I’m always just like “yeah, and…?” Like if we’re so smart why are they the ones with bullet trains and solar panels and not us?
General topic aside:
Because having an idea doesn’t automatically mean you get to sell it. China is stratehically subsidising promising sectors to create national champions and subsequently crush foreign competition by flooding the market with dumping priced goods.
An intelligent strategy but its seems like a double-edged sword as China doesn’t seem to freely share own innovations with others due to competitive reasons.
And in the case of AI models it’s straight up deranged to act like China is “stealing” from the US because US corporations trained those models on stolen data to begin with
I never got the issue with tech being “stolen”. Free exchange of information almost always helps everyone. The only class it doesn’t help is the capitalist class, which wants rent extraction by gatekeeping human advancements.
There are a great many things to criticise the Chinese state for. Allegedly “stealing tech” or “stealing western IP” however, has to be one of the weakest criticisms (even if it’s actually happening).
My dad brings this up when China comes up in conversation and I’m always just like “yeah, and…?” Like if we’re so smart why are they the ones with bullet trains and solar panels and not us?
General topic aside: Because having an idea doesn’t automatically mean you get to sell it. China is stratehically subsidising promising sectors to create national champions and subsequently crush foreign competition by flooding the market with dumping priced goods. An intelligent strategy but its seems like a double-edged sword as China doesn’t seem to freely share own innovations with others due to competitive reasons.
And in the case of AI models it’s straight up deranged to act like China is “stealing” from the US because US corporations trained those models on stolen data to begin with