I don't think China's slightly higher average IQ is a big advantage for them...
However, their governmental organization obviously has some practical advantages. As one example, they can get their intel/ military work done directly within their big internet tech companies, rather than via sluggish military contractors and limited-scope awkward back-channel-ish alliances with big internet tech companies like happens in the US. This means they are getting on average cleverer and harder working folks working on their gov't oriented tech, not due to IQ issues but due to organizational issues... On the other hand they continue to have deep problems with radical technical innovation due to a persistent culture of mistrust, and this will cause them real issues, because there are significant differences btw US and China contexts and copying/adapting Western innovations will probably not allow them to overtake the West technologically... I predict AGI will emerge first via organizations that are centered in the West, and China will then attempt to copy it, but will not be fast enough ... because the org that first creates AGI will be very fast-moving and agile and not that easy for creativity-phobic Chinese institutions to catch up with Note I lived in HK for 9 yrs and made many dozens of trips to Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen etc. etc. ... I have met w/ folks at the highest levels in Chinese tech companies and SOEs and fairly high up in gov't. There is a lot to admire and a lot to fear there, but I don't think China is really in the race as regards AGI and nor do they have the capacity to extremely rapidly play catch-up Of course all this could change in 10 yrs, so these comments are most relevant if AGI is achieved in the next say 7 yrs... ben On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 4:22 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > It's "Unrestricted Warfare > <https://archive.org/stream/Unrestricted_Warfare_Qiao_Liang_and_Wang_Xiangsui/Unrestricted_Warfare_Qiao_Liang_and_Wang_Xiangsui_djvu.txt>" > and as I've pointed out on numerous occasions, that document strikes me as > a limited hangout disinformation. Keep in mind the Chinese have a higher > average IQ than Europeans, their population is several times larger and > they have a _very_ long history of civil service examinations. > Extrapolate that mean advantage out to the high IQ tail where the ratios > explode and it's hard to imagine how great an advantage they have when it > comes to "peacetime" strategy. Add to that the belly-full of the West with > Sassoon's steamships delivering opium and Mao calling it "a century of > humiliation"... > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 6:48 PM Steve Richfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> As you are reading this, doing the best you can to survive the Pandemic, >> consider... >> >> The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a pretty good model for AGI, as >> there are ~500 people working together to provide the best possible >> management for China as it attempts to interact as well as possible with >> the rest of the world. A rising tide usually floats all boats, but China >> perceived an advantage to restrict information about COVID-19 to inflict it >> on the rest of the world, which is consistent with their internal manual >> *Unconventional >> Warfare*, which details LOTS of dirty tricks you might expect an AGI to >> employ as it seeks its goals. This manual is a REALLY scary read. >> >> Why would anyone expect an AGI to be any "friendlier" than the CCP? Why >> wouldn't anyone expect an AGI to be even nastier? >> >> This dirty deed WILL work for the CCP - unless worldwide revulsion costs >> the CCP even more. I doubt whether an AGI would greatly consider feelings >> that run counter to profit. 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