American copium regarding China has evolved over the years.

From “China is poor” to “China IS collapsing” to now “China is rich but WILL collapse.”

Here’s a quick debunking about the demographic crisis, one of the alleged reasons for future collapse:

1. A smaller population will be a blessing in the coming years. A lot of people still don't understand the coming revolution of AI and robots.

Like this autonomous taxi, for example.

2. If there are jobs that cannot be done by robots, there are two options:

A. Offshore those jobs to other developing nations. This will also mean higher profit margins for Chinese companies.

B. Bring in immigrants -- perhaps even on a short-term basis.

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Santa Fe Institute

@sfiscience

"The 21st Century Question: Emergently Engineering the Future"

Follow this 🧵 today and tomorrow for highlights from our 2022 #AppliedComplexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium:

santafe.edu/events/annual-…

#Web3 #Cities #Polarization #EmergentEngineering #Decentralization

We start with a talk by SFI President David Krakauer:

"Would anyone care to guess why we're so GOOD at building transistors and so CRAP at designing drugs?"

"This thing [points to transistor] lives in a centralized system. This thing [points to cancer drug] lives in US."

"I'm going to pick on economics, because we like to do that at SFI. 'Ooh, look at that cover! So techy. Global, heat maps...' But here's 'Networks' [in the textbook]. THAT'S IT. Here's '#ComplexityEconomics.' NOTHING."

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Cepton

@ceptontech

$CPTN Shaping mobility together. Cepton has entered into a binding agreement with our long-term automotive Tier 1 partner and current shareholder, Koito, for a $100 million investment: cepton.com/announcements/…

#lidar #smartmobility #Investment #ADAS #autonomousvehicles

Under the terms of the agreement, Koito will purchase $100 million of convertible preferred stock at an initial conversion price representing a 13.4% premium to Cepton’s closing price yesterday and a 7.0% premium to Cepton’s average closing price over the last five trading days.

This marks Koito’s third investment in $CPTN since 2020, and we are excited to strengthen our partnership and continue our focus on commercialization and mass-market deployment of our lidar solutions!
benzinga.com/news/22/10/294…

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Santa Fe Institute

@sfiscience

@cgershen

"#Emergence, #SelfOrganization, & #Complexity"

🧵 In today's SFI Seminar, Visiting Scholar @cgershen presents the second in his series of talks on core concepts in #ComplexSystems science, streaming now:

@cgershen

"In high school #physics class you are taught that with the initial conditions of a system, you can predict its future states. In #complexity, this is not so...it means #reductionism is not appropriate, #Platonism is not appropriate..."
- @cgershen

@cgershen

"You can see a layer of circuits computing something. What is it computing? Itself. In a 248x248 array, you can program the #GameOfLife inside the game of life. Computers allow us to explore #Complexity, and it's no surprise complexity became a science in the 1980s."
- @cgershen

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Luca Carlone

@lucacarlone1

excited to release the course material (slides, lecture notes, coding+theory exercises, Unity-based simulator, ...) for the graduate course MIT 16.485 "Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles" (VNAV), with topics spanning geometric vision, VIO, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, ...

2/n ... robust estimation, graph neural networks, and more.

Course material: vnav.mit.edu
Paper describing the course: arxiv.org/pdf/2206.00777…

@KasraKhosoussi

3/n The course was created at MIT in 2018 in collaboration with @KasraKhosoussi, and with many contributors including @VassilisTzoumas , Golnaz Habibi,
@MarkusRyll , @TalakRajat , @jingnanshi , and Pasquale Antonante, among others.

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Annales Belli

@annalesbelli

-Sky Giants- 🧵

The Bayraktar TB-2

The TB-2 is a medium altitude long endurance unmanned combataerial vehicle (MALE UCAV), made in Turkey by Bayrack. (1/5)
#svagaiature #aviationlovers #UkraineInvasion #tech #Turkey #aviationdaily #AutonomousVehicles

The project began when the USA put an embargo on Turkey for UAV, due the fear of them being used to taget PKK groups inside and outside of the nation. Bayrack started developing a drone on the request of turkish government, and in 2014 the TB-12 made its maiden flight. (2/5)

A year later the weapon system had been already tested.
Many problems, regarding its components arose with time: the engine used, made in Austria, was only certified for civilian use; while parts of its imaging system and bomb rack was suspended... (3/5)

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

"Humanity's shared destiny as a species is coming into ever greater focus through compounding crises and tremendous societal advances, yet our current institutional structures are struggling to meet the demands of this moment." --26th IEF Int'l Conference greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/dai…

CEO Confidence
conference-board.org/topics/CEO-Con…
#CEOConfidence #SurveyResults

New technique can safely guide an autonomous robot through a highly uncertain environment
techxplore.com/news/2022-05-t…
#AutonomousVehicles, #SpaceExploration, #TrajectoryPlanningSystem, #SafeLandings

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 04/02/2022 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/04/02/dai…

Sudden collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could be sign of things to come | Live Science
livescience.com/antarctica-con…
#ClimateChange, #EastAntarctica, #SatelliteData, #CongerIceShelf, #GlobalWarming

How greed and politics are slowing the switch to renewable energy - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
thebulletin.org/2022/01/how-gr…
#ClimateChange, #RenewableEnergy, #FossilFuels, #ProfitMotive

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 04/01/2022 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/dai…

Research shows unique connectivity lets highly creative people's brains take 'road less traveled' to their destination
medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-u…
#BigCPeople, #BrainConnectivity, #BrainArchitecture

How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane
theguardian.com/technology/202…
#SelfDrivingCars, #AutonomousVehicles, #TechnologyDevelopment, #FailureConsequences

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 01/06/2022
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/01/06/dai…

Issue #36: The Genesis of “Ledger Money” and the Modern Financial System

maroonmacro.substack.com/p/issue-36-the…

#LedgerMoney, #FinancialSystems, #DevelopmentTimeline

Modern culture blames parents for forces beyond their control | Aeon Essays

aeon.co/essays/modern-…

#culture, #essay, #AdultChildren, #ParentalEstrangement, #blame, #psychology, #responsibility

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Odia Kagan

@OdiaKagan

For vehicle data GDPR is just the beginning and stay tuned for the Data Governance Act, says German Brandenburg regional government in Q&A 1/5

#dataprivacy #dataprotection #connectedvehicles #autonomousvehicles

- Vehicle manufacturers have to observe GDPR when collecting and processing data. The customer's consent to the use of their data (e.g. on-board systems such as car apps) should always obtained when purchasing. 2/5

GDPR is a good foundation for ensuring data protection for data collected, processed and stored by modern vehicles. The legal requirements on "privacy by design" and "privacy by default" are important cornerstones to take into account when developing products. 3/5

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 12/06/2021
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/dai…

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef spawns in explosion of color during recovery from damage

usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

#GreatBarrierReef #CoralBleaching #spawning #recovery

Research brief: Feedback considerations for grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

#PublicPolicy #BiologicalFeedback #BiodiversityFeedback #models #HumanCommunities #MultidisciplinaryResearch

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Liqian Ren

@liqian_ren

https://twitter.com/USCC_GOV/status/1461056031858081802

🧵U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Comm. 2021 Annual Report to Congress

5 sections: competition (92 pages), economic relations(168), security(100), Taiwan(52), HK(52). 500+ pages, 1.5 hr video, 32 recommendations, w. 10 top recommendations.

https://twitter.com/USCC_GOV/status/1461056031858081802

Directly relevant, top recommendation related to Chinese VIE structured companies.

The commission not clear whether prohibition of VIE companies are limited to US listed or not. In the next 3 years most Chinese companies will be moving US listings to HK/mainland. /2

https://twitter.com/liqian_ren/status/1458940753170870273

I myself have written extensively on VIE. It is not straightforward to say VIE is illegal in China, as VIE structured companies are now listed on China's own exchanges, folded into merge and acquisition regulations. /3

https://twitter.com/liqian_ren/status/1458940753170870273

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 09/02/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/09/02/dai…

CEO Ridiculed for Raising Minimum Wage to $70K Has the Last Laugh

opednews.com/articles/CEO-R…

#IncomeDisparity #MinimumWage #FinancialPerformance

Cross-reactive CD4+ T cells enhance SARS-CoV-2 immune responses upon infection and vaccination

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#SARSCoV2 #ImmuneResponses #infections #vaccinations #antibodies

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Chris

@Christiano92

@Tesla

I will be live tweeting @Tesla AI Day Here. Personally looking at the data flow, latency, low power and performance of #Dojo and how it compares to @Google #TPU version 4 and other HPC systems and how it directly relate to #AutonomousVehicles #FSDBeta

Well as usual, Tesla is fashionably late and we are almost 18 mins past the start time. And the beat goes on...

@Tesla

#AIDay starts with a demo of FSD with the driver griping the steering wheel with his left hand in what looks to be the streets of California. #DojovsTPU #Dojo @Tesla

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Christiaan Hetzner

@christiaanhtznr

@ArgoAI

BREAKING: @ArgoAI and @Ford say they plan to launch self-driving vehicles (with safety drivers) on the @Lyft network beginning in Miami before the end of 2021. #Robotaxis #SelfDrivingCars #AutonomousVehicles @VWGroup

@Ford

In a statement, @Ford, its associate @ArgoAI and #ridehailing service provider @Lyft say "the parties are now working to finalize agreements aiming to deploy at least 1,000 autonomous vehicles on the Lyft network, across multiple markets over the next five years."

@Lyft

As part of the deal, @Lyft will join @Ford and @VWGroup as an @ArgoAI shareholder. The #ridehailing service company will receive 2.5% of the common equity as part of the licensing and data access agreements to collaborate on the safe commercialization of #AutonomousVehicles.

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 12/11/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/dai…

https://twitter.com/Toffeemen68/status/1337230568426106883

This Place Is Full of It: Towards an Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

https://twitter.com/Toffeemen68/status/1337230568426106883

#BullshitPerception #OrganizationalCulture #leadership #communication

The whole is more than the sum of its parts

medium.com/age-of-awarene…

#SystemsThinking #holism #interconnectedness

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Tara Goddard 🚸

@DrTaraGoddard

In light of Tesla's so-called "Full Self-Driving" (an inaccurate, dangerous name) release and the anniversary of Elaine Herzberg being killed by a negligent Uber AV test and chaperone driver, I'm re-upping my #AV talk. I'll follow up with some highlights.

(The YouTube link is the raw video, and you can find the slides at walkandbike.com/archives/188. When I'm able, I'll add the slides side-by-side with the video of the talk, but for now, this will have to do.)

In the large-scale MIT study on the "Moral Machine" of a simulated #AV trolley problem, they frame the hypothetical around "sudden brake failure" and an "unavoidable accident", which I argue is a scenario that ignores the purported safety promise of AV *and* bad language/framing

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Aleksei Statkevich

@AlekseiStatkevi

@amazon

Last week @amazon acquired self-driving #startup @zoox for $1.2bn.

Zoox has been working on a building a special vehicle just for full #SelfDriving. The company raised ~$1bn in total and was previously valued at $3.2bn. /1

#AI #AutonomousVehicles

techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/ama…

@Forbes

2/ Whether Amazon will "rule the world" or not as an article in @Forbes says, it's yet to be clear where #AutonomousVehicles fit in Amazon's business. At the moment, Zoox is expected to continue working on their robotaxi vision.

forbes.com/sites/bradtemp…

3/ However, Amazon will need to spend a lot more after the acquisition in order to bring #SelfDrivingCars to market.

cnbc.com/2020/06/26/ama…

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