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    KS> Sounds very much like what the author Ian M Banks envisioned as "The   
    KS> Culture" in his Culture sci-fi series. Have you read any of his work?   
      
   Definitely one of my favourite series of books, well most of it at least,   
   there are 3-5 of them I didn't feel fit the series or I couldn't get into.    
   Great recommendation though   
      
    KS> Looking at our current attempts at AI, I'd be concerned that the AI   
    KS> didn't start out corrupted/biased in the first place. I believe this is   
    KS> preconceptions. I have no idea how to avoid that.    
      
   Perhaps the 3rd or 4th generation of AI's made by AI's will start to lessen   
   human prejudices a little bit.  I'm not entirely sure how bad the   
   preconceptions are in GPT-4o for example, I haven't paid too much attention   
   with my use of it to date but I have read the horror stories.  That being said   
   something in me still feels that, even with those biases, AI would make for   
   better leaderes and stewards of our planet and society than the humans we have   
   in charge.  Perhaps a system where every 25-50 years, we get 4 years of AI   
   leadership where they go in, plug the loop holes, weed out corruption, reform   
   the systems to be more resiliant against special interests, and then hand the   
   reigns back to us.   
      
    KS> I believe this s a case of the first mover advantage. China started   
    KS> economic reform earlier and opened up foreign investment & trade in way   
    KS> that worked really well for them. This allowed China to effectively   
    KS> Who knows what would have happened in an alternate timeline? One where   
    KS> India wasn't torn apart by the parition that ended the Raj and didn't   
      
   Interesting, I hadn't heard that theory before, how much of a headstart did   
   they get?  Thinking about it, India got the first mover advantage in the realm   
   of outsourced services and China for manufacturing and commodities, I have to   
   think that the former is going to scale better over time than the latter.    
   We'll see how things shake out regardless, the more I read the more I get the   
   impression that China's economy is all built on a house of cards.   
      
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