China bashing - China bogey man got hammered again by the whites

 Commentary: What happens when Chinese AI goes rogue?

Using China as the boogeyman is no longer a convincing excuse for inaction on AI regulations by US lawmakers, says Catherine Thorbecke for Bloomberg Opinion.

TOKYO: Covering the recent round of AI apocalypse warnings, I’ve tried to reject this cult-like deference toward all-powerful computer systems and the inevitability rhetoric: If Silicon Valley doesn’t build them first, someone else – likely China – will.

Yet a recent spate of incidents in the United States has spurred a fresh, heated debate on the safety of allowing AI systems to act on their own. A growing number of researchers inside the companies involved are also warning of “existential” dangers, with Anthropic even flagging such concerns to investors in its initial public offering prospectus.

For China, the risks of near-term hazards like labour market threats or the more alarming sci-fi scenarios such as hacks on critical infrastructure are making it harder to write off the furore as a distinctly American obsession.

Beijing has dismissed some of these warnings as “fearmongering,” seeing the calls to slow AI development as an attempt to hold China back. But voices inside the industry have also suggested that frontier risks simply aren’t being felt as acutely at home because they’re further behind the US.  CNA

Never will a day pass without the American and western media bashing China of what will happen in the future if China will ..... The China sin is all about something that the Americans and the whites hyped about that could happen, not about something that China had done. The danger and invasive American AI models and agents have already started to attack many operating systems when put on short trial.

The attention is not about how dangerous the American AI can be and how to deal with them. As expected, it is about an opportunity for China bashing. What if China AI turns rogue?  Not about American AI has turned rogue. And the fear mongering starts, painting China as the demon to be that will destroy the world. This is the playbook of American and western media to demonise China and all their enemies. The Americans are committing wars of aggression and war crimes in Iran and the Middle East, on the excuse that Iran may have nuclear weapons in the future to nuke America. So it is right and proper to invade Iran, to destroy Iran, to annihilate Iranians and to nuke Iran. This is their standard of morality, of righteousness, of the white men's right to rule the world, to kill and destroy others on a vague excuse about a future event that may not happen at all.

Oh, America is so advanced in AI and China is trying to catch up? Really? America is so advanced in AI and now wanted to limit the growth of AI in China? Just like American chips are so advanced and afraid that China will come up with more advanced chips? The best AI scientists and chip engineers are all Chinese. Get it?

The silly playbook to demonise China has gone on for too long and getting so silly for the world to believe in them. Every time the American imbeciles and clowns open their mouths, the world would only laugh. Only American media and silly American crony media will find such China bashing articles worthy of mentioning and publishing.

Not to worry, China is collapsing with tons of problems. Just leave China alone, no need to do anything, no need to spend billions to demonise China. China will collapse on its own. Save your money and resources. No need to be yelping stupid things about China and make yourself looking stupid.

India and Japan will never be accepted as whites

In any case these doggies will still be crawling and groveling at the feet of Trump and even kissing his arsehole. They can hug each other on the bed, but we know all that lacks sincerity. We already know what friends of the USA are for anyway, thanks to Henry Kissinger.

India and Japan are just cultivated to counter China, nothing more. Trump is a hardcore bigoted racist and has no love lost for Asians. If those stupid Asians think otherwise, that is a sad state of affairs. India is trying to sniggle up to the Europeans at the G7 for years, or at least the Europeans in the G7 are throwing a bone for India to chew on but will never allow India into the club. India's GDP may be above some of the G7 countries but is not qualified to be in the rich White men's club. India will have to bleach itself white to be accepted.

On the other hand, the Indians are pissed off that they are not considered rich enough or white enough. Now, the first problem is solvable, maybe fifty years down the road, but the second problem about whiteness cannot be solved. After all, we all know that a leopard cannot change its spots however hard it tried.

The Japanese have considered themselves to be on par with the Whites and be treated as Whites in the past, which I do not know based on what criteria. In South America, the Japanese wanted to be treated as Whites decades ago. The same as in Africa. This is documented, not fabrication. But Japan's downfall today leaves much to be desired by countries for Japan to continue to sashay around once again like in the past.


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American fabricated truths, everything wrong is about Iran...it used to be China

Why is everything happening in the West all pointing towards Iranian involvement? Anything wrong and they straight away point the fingers at Iran. Automatic mode? Iran is involved in the Flydubai attempted hijacking. Iran is involved in the UK RAF Fairfield plot. Is this another attempt to give a dog a bad name and then skin it? What else is going to happen to consolidate the demonization of Iran?

Not long ago, anything untoward happening in the West was always China's CPC involved. Chinese spies were everywhere in the USA and Europe. Chinese products - quayside cranes, power transformers, solar panels, wind turbines, toilet seats, academics working in universities, Chinese workers in companies and even garlic were all spying for China. Every Tom, Dick and Harry was connected to the CPC, and every Chinese company in the USA and the West was likewise spying for the CPC. Tik Tok CEO, a Singaporean was accused of being a CPC member and therefore also spying for the CPC using Tik Tok as a front.

If the Iranians are really infiltrating so successfully into Western entities just like the Israelis, it really is a problem, right? Or is the so-called tight scrutiny by the West not working as well as it had been touted to be, letting the Iranians infiltrate. Which is which? The chicken or the eggs come first?

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Singaporeans have a new destination to visit to collect money

SINGAPORE: Every few weeks, 79-year-old Tan Mui Sng heads to the reverse vending machine at the void deck of her Serangoon housing block with a trolley and bags of empty containers in tow.

The retiree returns dozens of containers each time, earning a few dollars in deposits — the result of hours spent scouring her neighbourhood for discarded drink cans and bottles....

"For this one, there's much more money," she said in Mandarin, adding that she used to earn S$0.50 (US$0.39) for every 1kg of containers she sold to the rag-and-bone man.

She has lost track of how often she has used the reverse vending machine, but estimated earning more than S$10 from returning containers.

Under the scheme, consumers have to pay a refundable 10-cent deposit on eligible beverage containers, comprising pre-packaged plastic or metal containers with volumes between 150ml and 3,000ml. CNA

Singaporeans now have a new destination to visit other than the church. There are many reverse vending machines being placed in housing estates for Singaporeans to visit regularly to deposit their plastic and metal containers, and be rewarded with 10c or 15c per container. Oops, locals and foreigners can also do the same. They will not only be doing a good deed to save the world, to green the world, but also be rewarded with a few dollars or a few cents, depending on how many containers they brought along.

Retirees like the one mentioned in the above quote would be very happy to do so, doing some good deeds and getting some pocket money, and also as a form of exercise. If 50% of the 6m residents do it once a week, you can imagine the traffic flow, 3m trips a week or 12m trips a month or 144m trips a year. Additional positive effect of these visits is that the retirees and those without an income could actually generate some income by working a bit harder scouring for discarded containers.

Who are the real people paying for this and for the machine, the staffing and system management, the consumers of drinks, beers and whatever that have recyclable containers of course.  The whole system and movement of millions of people are all paid by the consumers of plastic bottles and metal containers. Please don't remind these consumers that they now have to pay more for their drinks because of this great scheme. For many, especially the millionaires, what is paying a few dollars more? For those who are living from pay check to pay check, sorry lah, just pay more visits to these machines to get your money back or absorb the higher cost.

Singapore being one of the richest country in the world, many would not be bothered to make such trips for a few cents or a few dollars. Small change. One thing will change, the lifestyle of Singaporeans and how they would allocate time for this ritual as part and parcel of life in the island. How long will this fad last? For the happy retirees, this will be a part of their lives, collecting metal containers and plastic bottles and to visit the shrines to earn some pocket money. It can be a happy daily ritual.

Terminators tells us about the future and Hollywood fantasies

If the Terminator movies tell us anything about the future, it is something to expect with the development of AI. Forget about the big tech companies talking about self-regulation. Where making money is concerned, self-regulation does not work in that environment.

Of course, in those movies, humans eventually trumped the robots. It is to be expected in order to be able to come up with more sequels, more versions and more money to be made. James Bond can never die, right?

I am surprised that social media sites are trying to explain how magic is done, knowing that all that is just unreal stuff, sleight of hand, staged sets and using close participants masquerading as audiences. Just like Hollywood movies which we know is unreal, just entertainment make-believe stuff. There is a saying that crazy actors act in movies while the dull of mind audience soak up the foolery as if they are reality.

Superman, batman, wonder women, green lantern, incredible hulk, fast and furious and avengers - just keep the sequels coming. As old actors died or fade away, the role passed on to new actors, but the main theme is immortal.


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