Alvin

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[Alvin @AlvinTheMage]

@teortaxesTex From many people's perspective you get cheap tokens + you help provide data for open source models.

Win-win.

[Alvin @AlvinTheMage]

@viemccoy Yes it has the most "human" style IMO. It hallucinates often, it is frankly still dumber than Claude, but the style is more human. I go to Gemini to chat about history and philosophy and whatever, then go to Claude to double check.

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@rohitshinde121 Singapore appropriated the land of many private landowners at low prices.

Landowners were unhappy but it helped us develop.

I don't think India could do that.

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@teortaxesTex China wants to help Africa not be broke so they can buy Chinese goods too. I mean that's exporting communism too in a way, but through economic means.

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Speaking as somewhat of a Spengler fan, what's so bad about being a civilization that has reached the fundamental forms that work for it anyway?

I mean it has some grain of truth to it. You can even give a direct analogue to many things in the PRC to older dynasties.

Every dynasty started with land reforms.

Today Confucianism is replaced with Xi Jinping thought. The Guokao is the analogue of the Keju. China still depends on riverine dams.

I like Spengler's vision, it's very rich in an early 20th century way, but it's fatalistic and a bit pessimistic, and if you are not a "high culture" he doesn't really even consider you. Japan isn't really a "high culture" in his system for example.

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But they want to use the Wight too?

Actually the Ring from LoTR is probably a better analogy.

They think AI is the One Ring. They want to build it first before the Enemy can build one. But along the way they say the One Ring will dominate Middle Earth, control all the Palantiri. Hobbits and Men will lose their jobs. They bring all this to King Aragorn.

What's their goal? They want Aragorn to pressure the men of Rhun and Harad to slowdown?

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@teortaxesTex The costume is actually Tibetan btw, not Mongolian, this kind of one shoulder robe style.

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@kamilkazani I thought even recently in Dagestan and some other republics, it was the women chasing and beating up the military recruiters?

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@nicoypei Your original post is wrong about Singapore. Maybe non-SG PR or Citizens will have more trouble, but citizens can easily register on IBKR.

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In the early Republican era, they tried to create a koine pronunciation of Mandarin that had many conservative elements today called 老国音. It had /ng/ and /v/ initials, and the 入声 as a glottal stop (Southern 方言 preserved -p, -k, -t) finals.

It failed because no one spoke like that in real life. You couldn't train the teachers to speak like that, what more the students.

I feel like tbh it was just too early, maybe if they did it just 20-30 years later with more widespread radio etc it would have been possible.

If you listen to the recordings of the early leaders of both the KMT and CCP, almost none of them speak Beijing Mandarin.

Deng Xiaoping's own Sichuanese Mandarin is more conservative than Beijing Mandarin in some areas.

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@AngelicaOung Mao's greatest contribution to China is land reforms. That's how he won the loyalty of the peasants.

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But Indians themselves experienced the change of Kshatriyas becoming administrators. Buddha's family was actually Kshatriya, during his time up to maybe the Maurya era, the historical Kshatriyas were more of bureaucrats and administrators rather than chariot riding warriors.

It's just a common historical trend for warrior aristocrats to become bureaucrats, Edo Samurai did the same

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@teortaxesTex Actually 士 means warrior and did originate as a warrior aristocracy. But post-Confucius and with the collapse of the Zhou model of feudalism the meaning shifted.

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@kamilkazani What about Mao Zedong?

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@Fly9981 This guy's username is "lanjiao" in Hokkien.

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@teortaxesTex To be fair to China, if you let markets have their way without having the reserve currency, it goes to real estate.

The US had the luxury of real estate speculation but still funding some frontier technologies.

Xi is playing the best he can with the cards he has.

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@kunley_drukpa Confucius literally wrote Feudalism with Chinese Characteristics.

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@teortaxesTex The Chinese criticism of Singaporeans as self-hating Asians has some basis.