alt Hacker NewsWhy are we assuming China is too gullible to know this technology can never work, when it's so obvious to the lay HN commentariat?
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LtWorf • today at 1:03 PM
It's hard for people to imagine someone can be smarter than they are.
Why are we assuming China is too gullible to know this technology can never work, when it's so obvious to the lay HN commentariat?
It's hard for people to imagine someone can be smarter than they are.
Presumably we're cunningly exploiting specifics of their world view.
Despite the authoritarian rule, PRC still values education highly in quite a few contexts where it doesn't interfere too much with the authoritarianism, and the country not only has plenty of physics graduates who will have learned about the Josephson effect, but might well listen to them and give them adequate grants for R&D.