I didn't actually know anything about him, and this particular article was interesting
Agreed, that alone torpedoes the whole plan.
At first I was shocked of reading this, on a ML instance of all places, to take Parenti’s siege socialism and attempt to make it as the result of some kind of struturalistc analysis feels unbelievable, but considering that our discussion has been around the fact that you’d rather use an agnostic analysis over a materialistic one, and that you don’t follow Hegelian dialectics and therefore the term “contradiction” means whatever you want, it’s then possible to see how one could claim such absurdities.
You continue to put words in my mouth while ignoring what I'm actually saying. I am very much using materialistic analysis, but you keep labelling it as agnostic while failing to actually engage with what's being said to you.
Parenti literally wrote that the external influences exacerbated the internal contradictions already present within the system, because he was using dialectical materialism and therefore saw first the existence of internal contradictions and then those being affected by the external influences, not the other way around as you claimed.
Except I did not claim the other way around anywhere. What I said is that internal contradictions are influenced by external factors. Which is precisely what Parenti identifies.
I need to say, having never had a discussion with a western “leftist” before, even though I somewhat knew what to expect, it is still impressive seeing it first hand how one can believe to make no mistakes and their arguments don’t require any proof since they personally own the truth, thinking that repeated enough times anything they say will become real.
Given that I grew up in USSR, this is the most hilarious thing I've been told in a while. I have to give you credit for the level of sophistication in your trolling. It took me a while to catch on.
Leaving that aside, this recent discussion has left me with a question which I look forward to the answer. If you can dismiss dialectical materialism so easily in favor of a struturalistic analysis, and don’t care about Hegelian dialectics, why were you writing about diamat in the first place?
Maybe you should spend a bit of time to actually understand what dialectical materialism is instead of writing pseudo intellectual comments.
As you point out, versatility is a huge feature. You can build one type of robot and use it for all kinds of different applications. This also means you can reuse the same robots for different jobs as needed instead of having to get a robot for every specific task. Another advantage is that you only need one set of parts to repair all your robots. Unitree can already make humanoid robots at around 10k a pop, and I imagine price will only keep going down.
I was gonna say, Europe already committed economic seppuku three years ago at the behest of the US.
That, and a new substrate that could make silicon obsolete.
key part:
According to China Science Daily, Wuji is now preparing to enter pilot-scale production. Around 70 per cent of its fabrication steps can be integrated into existing silicon-based production lines. The remaining specialised processes for 2D materials were developed in-house, supported by over 20 invention patents.
key part:
According to China Science Daily, Wuji is now preparing to enter pilot-scale production. Around 70 per cent of its fabrication steps can be integrated into existing silicon-based production lines. The remaining specialised processes for 2D materials were developed in-house, supported by over 20 invention patents.
according to the data you are
I don't expect Trump to change course either, and I expect that it will work in China's favor in the end. Currently, most countries are trying to keep a balance between China and the US, but the tariff war makes pursuing a relationship with the US largely pointless. China standing strong will create a rallying point for the rest of the world.