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Sardaukar20

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A former Japanese minister has come out and fully blamed India for the failures of the Indian High Speed Rail project.
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His tweet:
Translation:
I was involved in the Indian high-speed rail project, and what stood out to me at international conferences and negotiations was the outrageous behavior of the Indians. They simply didn't keep their promises. They would quickly renege on their promises. They insisted on their own self-interest until the very end. The minister in charge was particularly bad; with someone like that at the top, no fair deal could be made. For the sake of the honor of all the Japanese people who worked hard on this, I feel that the lack of progress is 100% the fault of the Indian side. "Even Prime Minister Takaichi's visit yielded no results; the 'Indian high-speed rail' project fails. Japan excluded from the signaling system, a crucial safety feature" (Toyo Keizai Online)
He called the project a "failure". So after nearly a decade of generous financing and delays, not a single HSR track have been laid, and Japan have been excluded from the signalling system.

Combine that with rumours that India js planning to build it's own rolling stocks instead of importing Japanese Shinkansens. It's looking like yet another classic scam job.

Thank Japan, China have dodged the bullet of the Indian HSR project. Jai Japan! Jai Hind!
 
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pmc

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I worked with Russians at one time, I often went there. And I still follow the Russian press and many websites. They mostly speak positively about the Chinese and support China in its fight with the USA. However, they regret that they have not managed to enter the technological progress like China. Do not be surprised, 20 years before Putin came, they were ostentatiously robbed by certain unnamed people.
lol robbed by certain unnamed people? It is not like Putin is going to spare them. these Putin words must adopt Traditional values or cease to exist.
Putin can differentiate between high quality and lower quality people due to Soft Power and he follow up later with high quality people.
when there is follow up than it means the person has qualities not just the need of backers.
They consider themselves leaders in Quantum, in Aviation, Mechanical engineering and so many things. and UAE put Russian flag on every building. that Royal AI. like that Telegram.
 

Chevalier

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Best thing is that since the big AI companies have yet to IPO, it’s mainly significant investors ie rich elite 1%ers and hedge funds who’ve lost money and may never see a return on what capital they have already invested.


Musk tweeting to his followers; it ppl stil believe Chinese tech is 1995, they’re gonna be in for a rude awakening for the rest of this decade.
 

plawolf

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You are repeating yourself over and over again with the same crappy argument from /r/localllama.

Individuals aren't going to get to interpret what is or is not American; the US government will, and the US government will exclude those fine tunes as American, simple as that. If a business wants to claim the cost of tokens as business expense, it better has receipts from Anthropic and OpenAI. Otherwise, that business is going to have some explaining to do regarding the cash flow discrepency.
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In that case, the business will get to pick the poison of coming clean for using non-certified LLMs, or get investigated for, let's say, money laundering.

The onus of proving compliance will rest on the businesses, not the government. The US government also doesn't need to go after every single business that uses LLM. Merely going after those on the S&P500 would be enough to cause the money to be funneled back into the AI bubble.

You are too focused on what the US could do without considering the costs and ramifications of it doing all that.

The most obvious and likely immediate business response to this kind of draconian regulatory efforts would be the TikTok-fixation of international companies with operations in the US where their parents either spin-off or sell-off their US operations to operate independently at arms length from the rest of their corporate interests. Which is the opposite of what US AI companies want and need, because having a walled garden is of no use if that garden is too small to sustain your needs. If US AI gets locked into its home market, then its dead and the only question left is how long the death spasms will last.

For the US to try to use long arm jurisdiction bullshit to pull the EU into its walled garden will either result in a trade war with the EU over it, or they drag the EU down with them if they succeed.
 

Temstar

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Pretty much, but actually far worse.

They essentially had two viable paths left to try to compel China into an arms race where they might have a reasonable chance of winning.

The first was economic, in the form of AI.

The second was actual Star Wars 2.0 with Falcon rockets.

AI was always the far worst investment because it was obvious that even if they won that race AI was never going to deliver the magical god-like powers promised. And AI is utterly useless in the face of overwhelming hard power dominance by your opponent.

With a real Star Wars arms race, even if you loose you should still get some really useful hard power orbital and/or anti-orbital weapons. By effectively abandoning that field, the Americans have all but guaranteed that China will dominate in space now that they have materially reduced SpaceX/NASA’s technological edge. Indeed, from the prominence given to space exploration in the latest 5 year plan, we can see which path China was actually really worried and focused on. Which is doubly ironic, because China putting the foundation to rapidly deploy Real Star Wars in space would allow China to fundamentally hard counter America’s biggest and most powerful Cold War hard power endowment - its nuclear arsenal.
This choice to go all in on AI would have been made sometime around 2023 during Biden presidency. Back then if they went for Star Wars 2.0:

1. Unlike AI which is spread out across many companies, US leading space effort is almost entirely concentrated in SpaceX, particularly back in 2023.

2. The rift between Musk and the democrats were already clear by 2023, so it would have been politically unacceptable for the ruling party.

So going for Star Wars 2.0 seems unlikely in retrospect. Maybe if Musk and his DOGE department hanged around longer after 2025 he could have changed direction, but alas turns out Musk was no good at Washington politics.
 

SlothmanAllen

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Watching the movie Odyssey felt like going on an odyssey of my own. I’ve never read the original book by Homer, but the film left a strong impression on me. It’s a story deeply rooted in sacrifice, love, resilience, loyalty, defiance, and unwavering dedication.
Agreed. I find myself thinking back on the movie. I love when a movie has a strong enough impact on you so you continue to think on it after you’ve left the theatre.
 

Randomuser

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A former Japanese minister has come out and fully blamed India for the failures of the Indian High Speed Rail project.
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His tweet:
Translation:

He called the project a "failure". So after nearly a decade of generous financing and delays, not a single HSR track have been laid, and Japan have been excluded from the signalling system.

Combine that with rumours that India js planning to build it's own rolling stocks instead of importing Japanese Shinkansens. It's looking like yet another classic scam job.

Thank Japan, China have dodged the bullet of the Indian HSR project. Jai Japan! Jai Hind!
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India is already hitting back. Thats India for you. Always causing trouble with blame shifting while never doing anything of substance to defuse the situation and making things work in the end. Its not hard to have seen this coming since they are like that with everyone.
 
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