Its also close to impossible to immigrate to China. I've checked it out myself since I'm really impressed by the work Huawei is doing with high density wireless nnetworks. HK was an easier (still difficult) path, but I haven't checked again since it changed hands.

It would still be false advertising even with "taste" since I still can't tell what the actual food looks like.

It doesn't have to be homogeneous or rural, you just have to address the grievances, make sure everyone is adequately housed, has access to medical attention, and has something to do; and then you get peace.

No that's really not sufficient

Some groups of people have absolutely endless amounts of grievances. They have made the grievances their entire personality. They will never be sufficiently satisfied with whatever concessions you make to them

We call them Americans.

It isn't done enough to share yet, but I've been having fun experimenting with a knowledge graph backed by sqlite, using the tool call schema from mcp-server-memory.

My main gripe so far is that I have to push the agent to maintain an organized graph. Once its there, it can be pretty useful to keep track of small notes which would otherwise be sprinkles all over my projects. The kg has some design limits that make poisoning hard to diagnose, so that's still on the list to fix.

X, the everything app, formerly known as Twitter, now SpaceXAI XCursor X.

That's like a popular 2000's era username.

xXxSpaceXAixX

xXxSpaceXAIxX: Return of Xander Cage

Musk pulls a Howard Hughes and goes into Hollywood producing just to bring back that franchise, just just for the letter X.

Very on-brand for a Halo 2 lobby circa 2005.

or the name of Elon and Grime's actual child

Don't give him any ideas.

Time to rebrand to CurXor?

Xursor?

AI by xAI, a SpaceX subsidiary fka as Twitter, special collab with Cursor

SpaceX, the everything company

SpaceXtra

if you can't define a threat model, or know why you need one, you will write vulnerable code.

I've gotten a lot of good work done with deepseek models. Like with any generic harness there's some tuning that has to happen. I used open code for a while, but I've landed on pi.dev as my go to since its easier to tune and has better deepseek integration. iirc open code is quite bad at utilizing cache and doesn't have a lot of ways to specifically tune the harness for a particular model.

Peace for who? Like just look at the last 50-70 years of US intervention in LatAm. Backing a series of coups and extremely violent right wing dictatorships.

The issue is one of incentives. The US needs cheap foreign labor because of deindustrialization policies in the 60s and 70s. These were arguably passed as a check on labor power since socialism was still looking potentially ascendant at the time. Whatever the reason though, the contemporary US is reliant on keeping foreign wages down and domination of the oil trade. Imperialism grows out of this need for external resources to maintain economic growth. It would be less relevant to us if we had better fundamentals, but we traded those away to avoid letting certain demos get wealthy and powerful.

China's play is more mercantile. They benefit most from stable trade conditions. They get richer the more customers they have. They benefitted massively from becoming an industrial trade partner with the US in the 60s and 70s. Because of this, they have completely different foreign policy objectives. All they need to do to win is normalize relations and build trade infrastructure. Its way cheaper than imperialism.

> Peace for who? Like just look at the last 50-70 years of US intervention in LatAm. Backing a series of coups and extremely violent right wing dictatorships.

For the world. Compare the those 70 years to the previous 70 years. Regime change and intervention is significantly better than full scale invasion, total war and colonization of other people.

> China's play is more mercantile.

Because they are held in check by US power. Remove the US and China is taking what it wants.

Eh a death squad is a death squad tbh.

I mean maybe, but China's industrial strategy isn't well served by war. I just don't see the structural incentive.

> The fact those plans also have subclauses ensuring the party elite are made even more wealthy and powerful is less alluring

Our oligarchs do that too and all we get in return is declining infrastructure and paranoia.

Classic case of getting downvoted solely because it's a negative comparison to China. The letter for letter exact same comment in a thread only about the US on here, that doesn't mention China, would get upvoted.

You are, of course, right. All of the downsides with none of the benefits.

Isn't the issue here the lack of accountability? Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't think its a foregone conclusion that governments are fundamentally corrupt. Ours certainly is and we have a very weak constitution which makes it worse, but that's the US. I think better constitutions are possible, but we have to stop treating it like a sacred document and be practical.

> I don't think its a foregone conclusion that governments are fundamentally corrupt

There's a question of what you mean. Is it, can they be corrupt? have they been corrupt? are they currently corrupt (because of the previous, or incidentally)?

Plato thought Democracy was corrupt and it's the least inherently corrupt system I know of. I would say they are fundamentally corrupt. The best you can do is try to limit it with a document (like the US Constitution) and setting up a multi-branch power structure capable of adversarial action. As you point out, the US does not have that and it's showing.