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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

Ground breaking AI🀑

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Their AI needs longer to develop cause it has to be folded a million times.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

dude had already swallowed the tech bs, thinks ai is the furthest advancement of technology when it can't compete with ancient tech. literally can't do what a calculator can do reliably. or a timer. or a calendar.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

Japan still generally places more emphasis on quality over shitting out shiny new, overpriced garbage as fast as possible

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I guess Japan caught depression.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doc: "No wonder this circuit failed; it says 'Made in Japan'."
Marty: "What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What was the joke supposed to be here, that they had rapidly industrialised.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they had a poor reputation and then rapidly improved which led to their current reputation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They started out like China, making cheaper copies of Western tech. Then they started to innovate.

China is now on exactly the same path, and it's well into the phase where they are innovating, but most people still refuse to acknowledge that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Western tech had a massive head start.

When a country's tech manufacturing is being developed it's going to start by making what already exists because.. it has to start somewhere.

It didn't take long for Japanese cars to supersede American cars. China is now doing the same to both American and Japanese cars. Nissan nearly went out of business and is still in trouble. Tesla's situation isn't helped by how dislikable its founder is so its value is plumetting.

Most countries don't know how to deal with the advent Chinese EVs so they're just slapping massive tariffs on them and hoping they figure something out in the meantime.

It isn't just going to stop at Japan and China though. Japan was subsidized by the US post WW2 and China built its manufacturing from the ground up. There are many other countries on that path which will lead to significant global competition. The West is going to have to keep its head up if it wants to remain competitive by the end of the century.

The leading Western nation responding to increased global competition with reactionary protectionism is a bad start. It's squandering all of the soft power the US has cultivated post WW2 leaving a power vacuum for China and other influential nations on the ascension to capitalize on.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really? Isn't it pretty obvious, I mean they make electric cars now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah but a lot of people still don't realize that they make better electric cars now.

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