I agree, the way governance is set up is very important, and even non profits can susceptible to perverse incentives as we see with Mozilla. Ideally, it would be something close to the way Linux Foundation is set up.

The new World Robotics report recorded 1,755,132 industrial robots working in China’s factories - an increase of 17%. Annual installations reached 276,288 units in 2023. This was down 5% but still the second highest level ever recorded – representing 51% of global demand.

https://ifr.org/downloads/press2018/2024-SEP-24_IFR_press_release_World_Robotics_2024_-_China.pdf

Indeed, it’s a huge conflict of interest for an ad company to operate the most popular browser. Google being the gatekeeper for the internet is a really terrible situation for the web as a whole.

Indeed, and frankly Chrome should be operated as a non profit because browsers have become an essential service.

The worst part about LLMs is that people ascribe some sort of intelligence or agency to them simply because the output they produce looks coherent. People need to understand that these are nothing more than Markov chains on steroids.

Indeed, and I’d argue most of actual useful industry exists outside the west at this point.

UBI is the wrong solution in general in my opinion. The proper approach is to have universal basic services. People should have access to all the basic needs provided unconditionally. I think it will be interesting to see how China will handle automation as it will definitively show whether it is moving towards communism or not. In a capitalist society, rapid automation would mean mass unemployment and economic strife. However, in a socialist society automation can simply translate into having a shorter work week.

If you read the article, you’ll see that these are being used in combination with traditional automation. The advantage of humanoid robots is versatility and ability to work in spaces designed for humans. As a side note, I always find it amusing how people always assume that nobody bothered to think of these obvious arguments before going ahead and building these robots.

This indeed would be a big problem in a capitalist society where people have to work for the sake of working.

There’s some truth to that, but realistically speaking I think the window of opportunity on that has closed now. The US has lost every one of their own war games against China in South China Sea. So, if China decided to take military action there’s little the US can do short of starting a nuclear war.

TSMC doesn’t care about preserving anything. The chips being made in Taiwan is their ace card in getting western support. If they ever started making cutting edge fabs elsewhere then their importance to the west would fizzle.

unfortunately looks that way

yeah sadly

A reminder that wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the NYT, you can download and run it as a single self contained HTML file from there https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle

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Node.js is a runtime, you can compile a number of languages to it. It’s useful because it can have relatively low resource usage and there are a lot of libraries available for it.

That’s likely what’s going to happen in short to medium term, but it’s quite possible it’ll diverge eventually. We can look at Huawei forking Android as an example here, they kept it largely compatible for a few years, and then started taking things in a new direction that broke compatibility. Between Russia and China alone there’s a huge pool of talented developers who can rival anything developers in the west can do.

whichever one NSA tells you to use

Wait US is also forking Linux?

It’s almost certain that they will be doing it and that Chinese will join in because they’re the obvious next target.