Why do you think China is about to enter a period...

Anonymous asked:

Why do you think China is about to enter a period of decline?

Well, kind of. They have some serious challenges ahead in the 21st century which exceed those of America’s.

The rivers running red with industrial runoff? The gradual slowdown in economic activity that the PRC has depended on to remain in power? The continued significant corruption, debt, and malinvestment such as the ghost cities? But the biggest one is, of course, the after-effects of the One Child Policy, which dramatically increases the ratio of older dependents to workers, and puts more economic pressure on young people, making family formation difficult/unaffordable.

China can potentially rise to meet all of these challenges, but it will not be easy, and the stress may break the PRC government and result in a civil war.

To do so, it may be necessary to transform their style of government into something new, but if they go the direction I’d go if I were them? That may be one helluva fight for dominance of the 21st century.

(Not sure when I got this ask. In fact, I can’t even remember when in recent times I mentioned this about China. It is important to remember in this and other considerations that the Chinese are not stupid, contrary to what the outsourcing American corporations assured us with “but the good jobs will stay here!”)

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Wombdustrial revolution when

I was joking. Artificial wombs are predominantly owned by private fertility companies, especially in Europe and North America, which lease them out as part of their designer baby packages.

For the most part, the only state-owned artificial wombs are in Japan, Korea, and China, and in China they’re purely for military concerns. Though the ten thousand blossoms program in Japan has performed about as well as can be expected.

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I bet you hide your gender because you don't know what it is. Merely being a confused possibly trans person is too normie, I'm guessing there was some kind of mindwipe and on the right stimulus you'll trigger as 2x193ffhg or something, at which point the world is sufficiently Woke to handle such a true form.

Gender, on Tumblr, is a Discourse Attack Surface:

Woman? “Shut the fuck up, you sexist bitch.” “Hush, Karen,” and so on.
Man? Obviously you don’t understand the Lived Experiences of Womyn, you’re an oppressor, you’re coming from a place of privilege, et cetera.
Transwoman? You can’t be a true woman because you were socialized male, and therefore oppressor, at birth. (Or various right-wing criticisms.)
Transman? Why are you trying to become the oppressor gender, you delusional wannabe oppressor?
Nonbinary? Make up your mind / stop trying to escape your obligations to WOMEN

And so on.

Not providing it makes it more difficult for [discourse rival] to avoid engaging with the content of a post by writing it off as written by [enemy gender]. They still can, but they have to assume the gender to do so, which is a discourse liability.

But on some level, you’re right - it’s probably no accident that all my long-term exes are bisexual women of some kind or another.

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Want some extra fun? Christian here who subscribes both to annihilationism (IE, the "hell = nonexistence" doctrine you're describing) *and* quantum immortality; I call this combination quantum universalism.

While many futurists anticipated broad advances across the technological economy, in fields ranging from computing to materials science, few foresaw the radical advancements in theology that advanced quantum theory would bring.

- The Quantum Fields of God, Ned Halibut, Kansas Revival Timeline, 2308 (retrieved from Church of Mars archives 2609 with permission of Father Gregory)

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I was doing semi deep dive into Orion’s Arm after @immanentizingeschatons reminded me of it, and it got me thinking about post-scarcity and politics.

Specifically, I was comparing it to some of the other post-scarcity settings I’ve seen, like Eclipse Phase, Mindjammer, and Nova Praxis. One thing that all of these have in common is that the politics presented in the game seems off.

Nova Praxis and Mindjammer to my mind don’t really have political conflict. They try to describe some of the political units, but they seem to be stereotypes masquerading as politics or and otherwise just poorly described. Eclipse Phase and Orion’s Arm do have political units, but they’re fairly obviously based on the political viewpoints favored in the demographic and seem kind of goofy and impossible because of that.

And it strikes me that to some level this is an impossible problem. If you think there won’t be real politics in the post-scarcity future, I’m going to very much doubt that. But if you think that you can predict the nature of political conflict in the post-scarcity future, I’m also going to very much doubt that. So, either way, you’re stuck with writing a political scene that’s weird.

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But really, can there truly be post-scarcity? Maybe with magic violating conservation of matter-energy, but without it, someone is going to want to use the mass of your asteroid to build their habitat to replicate their ideology.

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Honey, darling,

You’re missing like the remaining 11/12ths necessary to describe a full neurotype matrix. I feel cheated, here. But I guess I can’t expect people to be living in the gender world of 2052.

I’ll just take the average.

5/10 Strawberry (F)
3/10 Watermelon (A)
2/10 Cherry (M)

An interesting reading. I have been known to describe people, gender-wise, by ratios like this.

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No one who has seriously thought it through believes the dakimakura rumour. After all, why would a chronofelon settle for a mere image?

By 2056, every Wikipedia page of any figure of note, from George Washington to clerks for the Song Dynasty, has one of these as the primary image on the page instead of, you know, a painting or photograph.

Disney bought the rights in 2077 and manufactures a line of branded, family-friendly (by 2077 standards) androgynoids.

It makes dakimakura seem quaint in comparison.

Don’t blame me.

This is the future you people chose.

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Don’t get too excited, bro.

A lot of my thinking on what counts as actually-degenerate now, vs what could count as that in the future, depends significantly on available medical and legal technology.

Keeping birthrates steady is key in a society where lifespan has not been radically extended.
The lack of artificial wombs makes it far more difficult for the state to, if necessary, raise children to make up for population shortfalls.
STDs still exist, some of them are becoming antibiotic-resistant, some of them are permanent.
Most radical body modifications just aren’t feasible right now without dramatically risking the health of the subject.
Difficult-to-impossible for most people to exit their sexuality means that most people are locked in as heteros so gender ratios matter a lot.
Difficult-to-impossible for most people to remain young in appearance, and healthy beyond current healthspans. Long-term irreparable deterioration inevitable.
Cannot adequately repair DNA damage accrued through having children while of too great a genetic similarity.
Heritable diseases largely incurable, cannot be simply edited out.
Can’t repair brain damage beyond some minimum natural level at current tech level, including psychologically-induced trauma.
Can’t repair limbs effectively, replacement prosthetics are of substandard performance.

I’m not against a future of immortal cyborg mermaids polyamorously dating cyborg vampires while engaging in extreme Martian exosports per se, but I am against picking the policies that make sense for that future long before they make sense for our present moment.

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