The CCP has consistently been an early adopter of any technology that allows them to solidify their control. They probably seemed unremovable even before they started tracking everyone through the cameras they set up everywhere.
With that being said, I assume that Dario waving the American flag and pointing at the evil reds across the Pacific is basically motivated reasoning.
During his discussion with Demis at Davos, he conceded that he would like to pull the brakes on AI development… were it not for the fact that We Must Win The AI Race Against China, therefore full steam ahead.
The difference to my mind is the difference between:
Personal security and security as a regime.
And 1-epsilon security and 1 security.
I think the difference between the two of these would drive a lot of dictators actions.
I don’t know as much about China, but you can see the first dynamic pretty clearly in Putin’s actions. It’d be hard to argue that it’s good for Russian national security for the Gazprom retirement plan to be “Falling into artic waters in the middle of the night”, but it makes Putin like 0.001% safer.
On the other hand, if there was literally no benefit to doing so, I think Putin would be content and optimally happy retiring to a personal solar system sized dacha.
The CCP has consistently been an early adopter of any technology that allows them to solidify their control. They probably seemed unremovable even before they started tracking everyone through the cameras they set up everywhere.
With that being said, I assume that Dario waving the American flag and pointing at the evil reds across the Pacific is basically motivated reasoning.
During his discussion with Demis at Davos, he conceded that he would like to pull the brakes on AI development… were it not for the fact that We Must Win The AI Race Against China, therefore full steam ahead.
The difference to my mind is the difference between:
Personal security and security as a regime.
And 1-epsilon security and 1 security.
I think the difference between the two of these would drive a lot of dictators actions.
I don’t know as much about China, but you can see the first dynamic pretty clearly in Putin’s actions. It’d be hard to argue that it’s good for Russian national security for the Gazprom retirement plan to be “Falling into artic waters in the middle of the night”, but it makes Putin like 0.001% safer.
On the other hand, if there was literally no benefit to doing so, I think Putin would be content and optimally happy retiring to a personal solar system sized dacha.