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Cheers friend!

Friends you can't disagree with and work together to come to a mutual understanding with are superficial friendships.

I'm sorry if I came on too strong, but I appreciate your initial response as It clarifies more where you're coming from.

I don't disagree that "doomerism" exists and can be a problem, however that term is often used (and from my perspective is being used in this context) to deflect from the material reality in a "rub some dirt on it, it ain't that bad" sort of way.

However, within this context the "alternative" isn't complicated. The kids, and teachers, need therapy from trained medical professionals. More broadly they need access to healthcare and resources they aren't getting.

This comment here is a prime example of not having issues with any of the actual problematic aspects and is instead entirely fueled by "fear of the other".

The #1 priority of any state is maintaining their power. I apologize for the highly reductionist argument but:

Within the USA the private sector is, de facto, the super-executive branch of the state. It has "systematic ways" that it "interferes" with what it's supposed to be a "democratic" state. Sure there's a couple hundred oligarchs who all have competing ideas and visions but they, generally, understand that #1 rule.

Within China the CCP is, de facto, the super-executive branch of the state. It has "systematic ways" that it "interferes" with what it's supposed to be a "democratic" state. Sure there's a couple hundred general committee members who all have competing ideas and visions but they, generally, understand that #1 rule.

Within the USA any attempts at pulling power out of the "private sector" is a direct threat and any ideas around a "strong public sector" are a direct threat which is meet with propaganda, repression and violence.

Within China any attempts at pulling power out of the "public sector" is a direct threat and any ideas around a "strong private sector" are a direct threat which is meet with propaganda, repression and violence.

If your argument is honestly one against repression then stop spreading USA propaganda. Everyone knows that's how the CCP works. If you're going to convince anybody you need to evaluate and explain why it works that way and why it's a "problem".

As an example, the Jack Ma example is a particularly salient one as it would be, imo, comparable to Elon Musk being disappeared not long after floating the idea of DOGE. However your attempt to invoke comparisons to protest movements in the US; IE Fred Hampton, the Furgeson 6, 2020 disappearances, Columbia U ICE raids etc. feels disingenuous to me. Could you expand on that?

"As more students come to school traumatized by living through fires, floods, and other extreme weather, teachers are being asked to do more than educate — they’re also acting as untrained therapists."

"Doomerism" isn't the issue. The issue is that kids are living through real shit and realizing that the adults around them are unable/unwilling to help/protect them when it's needed. Your suggestion to fight "doomerism" is going to appear as a continuation of that and break any remaining trust even further.

Hope can be a useful tool, but within the context of American schools it's more often a tool for gaslighting and control than meaningful change.

We already have them... There called "migrant detention centers"

China is half a world away and isn't directly involved in my day to day. The harms that China can do to me are significantly less than those American businesses.

It's not about trust, it's about accurate threat modeling.

That's not how anything works!?!?! It was 100% captured in the petroleum, even if the process of petroleum->plastic straw is 99% efficient you're adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.

And it's nowhere near that efficient! Cracking alone is 65-86% efficient with probably a minimum of 2 other processing steps of similar efficiency (SWAG of 27-64% final efficiency). The waste isn't all greenhouse gasses, but a good amount is...

Exactly! You only have to boil so much before it starts a feedback loop and boils itself off. It's efficiency is genius! Say it with me: "the solution to pollution is dilution."

I mean, let's assume that we somehow regulate AI so that people have to pay to use copyrighted works for training (as absurd as that is).

ISBNDB approximates there to be 158,464,880 published books in existence.

Meta's annual income was ~156 billion last year.

Assuming a one time purchase scenario and a $20 average cost that's ~3.2 billion dollars. ~2% of their annual revenue.

Or you could assume assuming a $0.2 annual license (similar to a lot of technology licenses), or a 0.002 per "stream" (which I. This instance would be 'use of data to train model')

I agree with most of what you said, but if you buy into a lot of the economic paradigms your arguments are based on you must also realize that those require the copyrighted works must be paid for and it's not unreasonable to do so.

Hell, nowadays most major corporations do this. Just nobody uses the scare word "propaganda" to describe it.

One look at that website should be pretty obvious it's an incredibly biased and low effort source. I don't doubt the general outline of the article as this seems like pretty standard colonizer/empire shit, but it also isn't the "gotcha" you seem to think it is...

Oh sure, and money isn't actually stuff, it's just an approximation of the stuff that you could buy. You can't just buy anything you want with it.

If you want to actually convert it into stuff it's a decade long process to take the raw resources and process them into the desired end product.

(Sure it's not "real money" the same way money, laws, government, etc. aren't "real" but they're enough of a shared psychosis that it provides the ability to shape reality. Smugly pointing out that it's just another socioeconomic abstraction layer deep doesn't change the material effect on reality.)