I made it to about episode 5 with Discovery (the one with the security officer getting mauled because she walked into that cage with the wild animal unarmed) by actively giving it more chances than it deserved, not sure how you managed to watch a whole two seasons of it.
In a way it is already acting like a CEO, LLMs basically just repeat what everyone else they read was saying, just like CEOs do with the latest hyped thing.
It shouldn't come as a big surprise that <people who hate group x no matter what group x does> also oppose <specific thing a specific subset of group x does>. That is not an argument for or against criticizing that specific thing.
I reject several of the premises of the article, in particular the idea that China and the western countries are independent enough from each other that their rise or fall could be seen as independent phenomenons and also the idea that China’s growth represents something that the West could emulated and that isn’t just a result of the fact that China’s population was still largely peasants at the start of that growth. It is always easier to see higher percentage growth if you start from a very low base value.
That said I am not saying China isn’t doing some things better than the west, particularly when it comes to decisive and unified action but again, a lot of that is the result of the different starting positions, if the status quo favors you already you tend to be cautious not to lose that status while risky behaviour is more likely to benefit you if you start further down. And of course it is easier to get a population to act in a unified way if you can just force them as opposed to having to convince them.
I am not too familiar with Taiwan but usually most countries have elections at multiple levels of government and potentially even e.g. presidential and parliamentary elections.
0 out of 10. I was hoping Michael Burnham would die in that EVA in the first episode because they were so annoying as a character a few minutes in already and it went downhill from there. The only character I did like, the captain in the first episode died not too much later. I stuck through roughly the first 5 episodes but when that security officer went into the cage with that wild animal and got very predictably mauled I just couldn’t stand the horrible writing any more.
Would be interesting to compare that to receptivity to other kinds of profound sounding bullshit, e.g. in the religious or “spiritual” realms or in marketing or PR.