Thanks, not over-critical at all! Good point: I am fairly confident that by my values a US-led future would be better, but I am quite uncertain how large this effect is, and each individual consideration/​argument is fairly fuzzy.
I don’t have any particular China expertise, but I work in international AI governance so try to stay quite familiar with at least AI-relevant aspects of things going on in China.
Moral innovation: I was considering citing something like comparing some university rankings for philosophy vs natural sciences where Chinese universities seem to do better in the latter than the former. But I’m not sure how much to trust such rankings, and my claim is more vibes-based that even though things I hear are very Western-tinted, I feel far more likely to hear about cutting-edge scientific work coming out of China than cutting-edge philosophy. Though yes, of course it is also the case that I personally just find Western philosophy more useful (specifically analytic philosophy, not continental).
Economic stasis: True, I think China is becoming more innovative and dynamic technologically/​economically, and it is possible it will overall catch up with the West. Though my guess is that liberal, capitalist political-economic systems will still overall prove better for long-run innovation.
Thanks, not over-critical at all! Good point: I am fairly confident that by my values a US-led future would be better, but I am quite uncertain how large this effect is, and each individual consideration/​argument is fairly fuzzy.
I don’t have any particular China expertise, but I work in international AI governance so try to stay quite familiar with at least AI-relevant aspects of things going on in China.
Moral innovation: I was considering citing something like comparing some university rankings for philosophy vs natural sciences where Chinese universities seem to do better in the latter than the former. But I’m not sure how much to trust such rankings, and my claim is more vibes-based that even though things I hear are very Western-tinted, I feel far more likely to hear about cutting-edge scientific work coming out of China than cutting-edge philosophy. Though yes, of course it is also the case that I personally just find Western philosophy more useful (specifically analytic philosophy, not continental).
Economic stasis: True, I think China is becoming more innovative and dynamic technologically/​economically, and it is possible it will overall catch up with the West. Though my guess is that liberal, capitalist political-economic systems will still overall prove better for long-run innovation.