Just a bit ;)

Here's the original analysis from @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

It's still not enough to keep us below 2° (don't get me started on 1.5°), but it's crucial that China takes a leading role here showing a path others can follow.

If they now figure out how to loosen their totalitarian grip on the Uyghurs, Taiwan and Nepal, they might develop a serious self-normative image that can propel them to the status of true world leader which the US under Trumpism has no real interest to occupy anymore.

So, not only are they winning the energy transformation (the most important race), they are also the only serious contender in the race for AI besides the US. And that's remarkable.

China is clearly emerging as the world leader here, despite developing maybe the most serious contender to western AI models with DeepSeek which they trained with a fraction of resources.

And that race is *not* the race to produce the most sophisticated AI, but the race to a stable solar economy in the face of climate change. Economic tranformation towards renewables might be the most important contributor to the self-normative image any state can commit to.

In the emerging geopolitical multipolar world order, it seems that China is winning multiple "races". Just as the West cemented it's self-normative image as a world leader by winning the space race, China seems to win the arguably most important race of the 21st century.

That's not very true, my dude ;)

While we're at it, shout my heart, scream your love, whisper the night, "Rockstar is a computer programming language based on the lyrics to 1980s hard rock and power ballads." codewithrockstar.com

So, thanks for pointing at a problem here that Blade Runner and Westworld already identified, but an opinion piece this is not.

Oh, and btw, interpolatable archives are as conscious as the brick wall in your local library.

You can go many different paths from "morals derived from simulations of consciousness", you can make consciousness of living beings sacred or devalue them, you can go towards universal rights for every consciousness or towards eugenics if fashy is your thing. She offers nothing.

She correctly states that we have reduce moral weight towards conscious creatures when it comes to meat production, and then states that consciousness-simulation via AI may reinforce this moral relativism, but she then just stops short where the interesting bit of work actually starts.

I don't think changing semantics are the problem with this article, but the unoppinionated statements on moral weight we ascribe towards conscious beings of any kind. She seems perfectly fine with having no moral considerations towards conscious life, and having AI reinforce this by simulation.

Nothing to see here. This is just touch being sensitive to pressure and when you move your finger through sand with a hidden object, you'll feel it before you touch it, which, duh. No Sheldrake, sorry.

Oh god i could go on while it's 6 in Berlin, but anyways: Digital Orality is a beast, and fairy tales are the new news. Good night and good luck. ;)

We always played around with all of these layers in communications, but only the truth-part was allowed into mass media. This is why the social-part in socmed is so crucial (and i don't believe in the "algorithms caused this"-myth): It is humans self selecting into tribes within memetic fields.

The thing is, as bad as this sounds, i don't believe that it was always that different, but gatekeepers simply cut off the folkways at a certain threshold. Online media now reveal the full spectrum of communicative purposes—play, identity, partisanship, performance, outrage, and sometimes: truth.

Like @tedunderwood.com said, you can apply these rules to any logic, it works with every topic and within all frameworks and you can find it in any community, from science to trolls to journalism to artists and so on. Digital orality is just the way we establish beliefs now, everywhere.