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0 pointsthroawayonthe12d ago0 comments

i would call out reduction in extreme poverty or increased healthcare access or something but yeah the models are fine i guess

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yieldcrv12d ago· 6 in thread

I don't consider mainland aspects to be "examples of their ideological system working for the world", it works for urban areas in China

and I don't really see their foreign investment to be doing that, I think it complements what the West has done and has high impact in areas that the West ignores or hasn't taken seriously for investment, only a history of pillaging and subsequently aid

their ideological system - usually in name alone - also relies on the whole world eventually being on it for it to work, so the models being so good and available for the people openly instead of as a closed source concoction fits really well

that's what I see and how I got there, what do you see?

shimman12d ago

If you can't appreciate or understand what a substantial effort it was to reduce poverty in China, then you aren't a serious person worth paying attention to. It's literally the economic question of the century and something we should seriously study because we have the potential to lift the entire world out of poverty too.

dudisubekti12d ago

Crazy how people make light of this, when you can see the alternative today: India.

Sorry Indians reading this for throwing shade at India, but I just want to point out that making 1 billion of people not poor is freaking hard.

logicchains11d ago

The Chinese government did a terrible job of reducing poverty relative to other East Asian nations like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. From a similar starting point the GDP per capita lagged well behind, and even now it still does; it's around $15k, similar to Mexico and less than half of those other East Asian countries. If the argument is "it's harder because the country is bigger", then if the government care about living standards it should have decentralized into lots of smaller countries like Europe, which if didn't do.

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jacker3911d ago

It's really not that complicated. The government banned people from trading causing extreme poverty and famine in one of the most fertile areas in the world. Then they reversed the ban and let Chinese people trade again. At the same time western companies setup factories in China causing massive capital inflows.

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yieldcrv11d ago

We’re just not talking about that right now

We are talking about open source ai models working really well for the people of the world

SubiculumCode11d ago

Please. Be serious.

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