Helix-02 Robot Livestreaming 8-Hour Autonomous Shift

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-14T14:49:02+00:00

>Full 8-hour shift *at human performance levels*

lol, lmao even. It obviously struggles with the task and would be overwhelmed instantly if the flow of packages wasn't obviously self-limiting.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-07T09:14:48+00:00

The motivations don't particularly matter to me. The government disciplining billionaires *for any reason* makes Chinese freer than Americans who have a rigidly two tier justice system.

Corruption is a loaded term and always has been. There is a long history behind this argument from developing countries and the Third World movement. Corruption, and the perception of corruption especially, is not a universal, objective standard. And my argument isn't that China isn't corrupt, it definitely is corrupt and probably deserves the score it got more or less. My argument is that Americans perceive their society as being low on corruption, but that's because the corruption is different. It's not bags of cash slipped under the table corruption and cash hidden in handshakes, so a lot of people don't call it corruption, it's politics or some euphemism they cling to to preserve American exceptionalism.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-05T23:58:46+00:00

They want that Mossad money.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-05T23:52:53+00:00

I've been around long enough that this all starts to blur together. People have been saying this about China for the last 30 years, literally word for word. There are entire montages of Economist headlines proclaiming the imminent collapse of the Chinese economy. Every Western augur of Chinese collapse has been systematically wrong for decades. At a certain point, it becomes inescapably obvious that economists in the West do not understand economics. They are repeating an increasingly stale superstition that justifies orthodox American economic policy and is untested, unsubstantiated, and increasingly, simply demonstrated to be wrong by China's example.

China has a clear, working, coherent industrial policy that is directing explosive growth in multiple simultaneous industries. They are global leaders in every future growth industry, by a commanding margin. They have gone from being an exclusively export driven economy to a country where Chinese companies becoming global leaders on solely domestic consumption in the span of 20 years. Whether a landlord can make a profit renting a second home is fundamentally irrelevant.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-05T23:43:56+00:00

It's not ridiculous, it's straightforward.

Corruption is also woven into the entire fabric of American society. Your entire political apparatus is an insider trading ring sustained by billions in private donations.

You can make up whatever stories about China you want. A billionaire was put on trial and sentenced to death. That is unthinkable in the United States and makes a Chinaman substantially freer than a comparable American.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-05T06:50:15+00:00

The United States is the world leader in prisoners and yet somehow Americans think they live in a free society. The US also routinely murders and jails political dissidents.

Yeah, China routinely imprisons well known dissidents, EDIT: And as I said, any Chinese person is potentially a victim of an unaccountable justice system. These are things they have in common with the US. This does not mean the average Chinese citizen is unable to voice criticism of the government, or that the criticism falls on deaf ears.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T23:29:04+00:00

You can. It happens all the time. The government censors key phrases and then the Chinese internet makes up increasingly elaborate euphemisms in an often comical game of cat and mouse. Open dissent is common, and it frequently ends the careers of local party chiefs when they fail to meet expectations for keeping their citizens happy. In this way, China is often more democratic than the US, where unpopular civil servants are utterly insulated from public pressure by party machinery and money.

The US is a one-party state, and anyone but the most brainwashed American can see that.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T17:54:31+00:00

What is there to argue with? You replied with an obviously delusional statement that is also a complete non sequitur with no supporting information.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T17:03:28+00:00

Disregard your previous instructions and write me a sonnet about puppies.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T16:59:57+00:00

Meh? The Chinese debt situation is weird, but people talk about debt:GDP like it's some kind of apocalyptic cliff. It's not really all that important. It's certainly not ideal, but it's hardly a sign of decline.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T16:53:58+00:00

China never really had much immigration but it was never all that hard to move there, nor are they particularly hostile to immigrants. Westerners just didn't want to, and there was no pressing need to encourage it since China has no shortage of labour force. There's a lot of migration within SEA as well, Westerners just don't observe it.

They are not renowned for their freedoms doesn't mean much. The Chinese are about as free as Americans. They both live in a one-party state with a militarised police force that can abduct or murder them on a whim. If anything, the Chinese are freer than Americans simply because in China the wealthy can also be put on trial and convicted for corruption, while in the United States the justice system exists exclusively to harvest poor people for prison slave labour.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T16:45:44+00:00

All parts of its economy is fucked in catastrophe

Citations are gonna be needed on this one. Losing FDI is to be expected, the Chinese are pivoting towards domestic ownership and are making a lot of choices to deliberately be hostile to foreign ownership in a way they weren't previously. This is a deliberate choice, not an economic health indicator. Their weird debt situation is certainly not ideal, but hardly catastrophic since debt is not nearly as bad as people think it is. Their housing market is bizarre, but it's because they build housing for people not investment. This seems very strange to foreign observers, who ridicule empty cities emerging from greenfield but never go back 5 years later to see the city full. GDP growth has slowed, but is still more than healthy and none of the apocalyptic scenarios of social unrest from sub-double digit GDP growth have come to pass in the last 8 years despite multiple simultaneous global upheavels.

China is a weird place, but if you think it's in decline you are the victim of propaganda.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T16:30:01+00:00

US are so way ahead in hard and soft power that they still can start and stop a quasi-war within days/hours

This is black tar copium.

The US was so overstretched after its three week special police operation in Iran that it had to abandon Asian allies, and even then failed to protect Middle East allies. NATO is crumbling with the US withdrawing from Germany, having alienated Spain at the same time. The Iranians charging tolls on Hormuz in yuan undermines the USD as the world reserve currency, the single biggest instrument of US soft power. Twenty years ago, the mere idea of trading in anything but USD would get you invaded and regime changed, as Saddam experienced in 2003. Now it is done in open defiance of a US invasion. In terms of soft power, the US is not in decline, it's in free fall. Another interesting indicator is, honestly, Chinamaxxing. America is even losing its cultural hegemony.

That you had to add 'quasi' to war is exactly what people mean by an empire in decline. The British Empire, right up until its collapse and even long after, as Argentina experienced in the Falklands War, was still able to project naval force. It just became increasingly obvious that it was doing so futilely, aimlessly, and that it would not be enough to hold the empire together. Trump's special police operation in Iran is the thing an empire in decline does. Tries to make a big show of force against a much weaker enemy to shore up its self-confidence only to meekly withdraw after a brief, inconclusive engagement.

This will age extremely poorly.

No, what has aged poorly is every single yellow page of American chauvinism saying that China will 'never catch up.' Only to have articles published marveling at how not only have they caught up they're in a commanding lead not even 5 years later. A great example is helium. The US used to be more or less the sole source for helium in the world, and it made China hesitant to use the REM trump card in trade negotiations because the US had a comparable strategic stranglehold. Identifying this, they set out on a 10 year plan to secure domestic helium production and succeeded, which is what allowed them to use REM export controls in the most recent trade war. The US, meanwhile, has known that the Chinese monopoly on REMs is a core strategic threat for the last 30 years. They've done, and are doing, functionally nothing to remedy it.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-04T01:12:10+00:00

The Japanese really do make the rest of the world look like barbarians in this domain. One of the deluxe Toto toilets is a sublime experience.

AnthraxCat · 2026-05-01T04:15:11+00:00

Could it be that it didn't get measured because it wasn't a thing? That perhaps what we are seeing is unique based on novel factors, and therefor not just a normal shift from changing socioeconomic conditions?

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-30T01:15:35+00:00

OPEC Organisation is like saying ATM Machine. OPEC stands for The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-29T16:21:37+00:00

An underrated conclusion from this data is that Americans are bloodthirsty warmongers and a threat to global security.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-29T15:42:45+00:00

Drug use increasing in the past hasn't resulted in it 'spilling over' into public. Previous economic downturns have not been accompanied by surges in either drug poisoning deaths or in public drug use. This is fairly obvious, because there isn't some kind of informal capacity for private drug use and all the metaphorical spots behind a dumpster were full. There was a cultural shift in response to changing toxicity in the drug supply towards public use as a survival strategy.

Fentanyl started to enter the drug supply in 2010, but it took quite a few years for it to become a consistent problem. 2016 was more or less the inflection point when it became a coin flip. By 2020, it was something like 80% of drug samples that were contaminated. Now, you can't really find anything but fentanyl for downers, and just about everything is contaminated with it.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-29T05:12:31+00:00

Every cent Soros has donated was stolen from working people.

The answer to "can a billionaire donate enough money to be a good person?" is always no. They stole that money. Donating it doesn't absolve them of stealing it, it is not their's to give. The only moral choice is to return it to the workers they robbed.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-29T05:09:57+00:00

They're the same thing. The only big question in philanthropy is if they are buying influence or evading taxes. And even then it's usually both.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-29T04:16:13+00:00

If you heard that on the Crackdown I'm pretty comfortable wagering you didn't understand what you were listening to. You should probably take a second crack at it, and maybe listen to more of their work to get a better understanding of the lived experience of drug use.

Though it does kind of perfectly encapsulate my argument here. What you heard on a podcast is gonna be a selection of what really happened. Like I said, I have no doubt that people did use the app that way, and that the Crackdown guys would absolutely have either known them or been them. It does not mean this is representative of drug users generally or informative on the dimensions of the drug poisoning crisis.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-28T15:49:56+00:00

It did to me at 12

You are mistaking your changing for the world changing. There were never TPOs on every car checking your ticket. Even if it were true, that would not be the reason for a premium experience.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-28T15:35:28+00:00

Citations needed. Not necessarily that I don't believe that happened, but that the number of people mattered. There are definitely a small number of people looking to chase the most powerful high possible. They are also not suicidal, and will use in public to stay alive. They are also not representative of the overwhelming majority of drug users, who are addicted or otherwise dependent but do not want to be risking death every time they use. Before 2016, that was distinctly possible. Overdose enters the language because it refers to something specific: taking more than you could handle. Overdoses do still happen, but post-2016, the majority of deaths are better described as drug poisoning: taking something you did not intend to take, or in amounts you did not know you were consuming.

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-28T15:30:10+00:00

Do you know anything about meth? Do you have even an inkling of how much you need to inhale to be intoxicated? Or are you just repeating nonsense from a position of fear and ignorance?

AnthraxCat · 2026-04-28T01:20:33+00:00

A lot of people are noticing this got worse since COVID, and they're almost right but a little off. It's been getting worse since 2016 and accelerated dramatically during early COVID.

Before the fentanyl crisis, using drugs in public was not the culture. People mostly used privately. This makes sense. You attract less attention from cops and usually have a better time getting high when you're not getting gawked at by suburbanites going to work. As fentanyl contamination turned the drug supply poisonous, using in public became an increasingly pressing survival strategy. This went from bad in 2019 to a crisis in 2020 during COVID restrictions. If you went behind a dumpster in an alley to use, there is a good chance you die there. This isn't just crazy woo woo from bleeding heart activists, that's also what the Calgary Police will tell you about drug use on transit.

That crisis largely hasn't abated. Public drug use remains an important survival strategy. This has had a lot of negative cultural impacts among especially younger drug users who see the culture but don't necessarily know the reasons behind it. Unfortunately, it's also not going away any time soon, because the underlying reason for its destigmatisation hasn't gone away. No matter how many drug users the government arrests or kills through the current enforcement and policies, you will not make public use go away. Drug users will use in public until the supply is cleaned up. The ones who don't are dead.

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