• shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Don’t worry it’ll for more than a generations. China is already a peer competitor and what America had going for it was incumbency as the global unipolar hegimon. Trump has openly reliquished this position and, regardless of who succeeds him, it’s not something that can be easily restablished.

    Winning goodwill back is almost certainly not going to happen. Even with assurances, other countries will feel as if they’re only one election cycle away from potentially unfair treatment. The only way we go back to American unipolarity is another world war which America somehow gets rich off of like WW2 or achieving artificial general intelligence before anyone else.

    I think the leaders of the US understand this which is why they’re pushing for higher military spending everywhere and also going hard on AGI, no matter how far fetched it is in the near future at least.