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"Slop" has become a comfort blanket for a cohort of programmers stuck somewhere between anger and bargaining on their way to acceptance. There might be some kicking and screaming, maybe a little crying, but eventually you have to let the blanket go and update your priors.

China is "far ahead" of India is a myth. In terms of development and tech, yes they are ahead. But not "far ahead." Most of China's tech are copies of US/European tech got by buying up companies, forced tech transfers, or outright stealing which India doesn't do. Their fighters, engines, rockets, tanks - most are copies of Western/Russian tech. Sometimes part for part. 2000 years ago too they were good replicators, traveling thousands of kms to India to copy Indian texts on religion, science, philosophy, medicine. Commendable. They do a good show with the robots and drones, producing them in numbers and deploying them publicly. But most of them are still behind what the US has. And all the tech was first innovated in the US/West. They still assemble 80% of a smartphone "Made in China" from imported parts. They still rely on western tech for their chips. Yet, not a single Chinese will ever mock themselves as "only assembling." This is their strength. Their AI models are definitely good, but most of them are distilled from western models, trained on illegally obtained sanctioned American GPUs, and lag in capabilities to frontier US models. Their cities are definitely built to impress. But built by printing huge sums of money and taking large amounts of debt. And rebuilt from scratch razing down entire localities without any choice given to citizens. Their development model is something a democracy like India simply cannot replicate. When some in India compare some infra from China, as it is trend now, and mock India's, also ask them to say in the same sentence: "Let's have a dictatorship, I am ready to go through a cultural revolution that destroys all dehati behavior including mine, I'm ready to leave my religion, and give up all I have to the govt to redevelop India." They won't. But this is what happened in China before to get what it has now. Millions of historical books were burned, religions and local languages were destroyed, millions of dehatis killed, teachers were roasted and eaten, tanks rolled over protestors. Not a single thing I said in this para is an exaggeration. And some of their practices like stealing tech and sabotaging others to rise, or use their women like assets to influence the weak western elites to gain from them are somethings India will never do. Indians must get rid of this inferiority complex instilled into us by clever psyops and propaganda to disillusion us and derail our development. India has long been the land of innovators and riches. A rich India shielded China from the worst of Islamic invasions and western colonialism. China's "century of humiliation" they play up pales in comparison to 1000 years of oppression India faced destroying its culture, civilization, and capabilities. Yet, India has risen up since independence, and even with a democracy where reforms can't be pushed through and no cultural revolution killing 30-40m, India has done well enough to keep up with China. At present, if you look worldwide in developed nations where both Indians and Chinese migrate to, you will see Indians far outpace the Chinese in wealth, income, innovation, startups, leadership, politics etc. In every single nation. No exceptions. Given similar opportunities, Indians and India will do extremely well. Indians do better than even natives while starting from scratch. And this is across castes, religions, and regions. Come to a country like the US or take UAE - Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Malayalis, Punjabis, GCs, STs, Christians - every Indian group will have people who have excelled. I am not saying the Chinese aren't capable or inferior. That's what they do to us trained by CCP's toxic supremacist propaganda. We don't need to be them. But every Indian must understand, India will quickly catch up and surpass China if it is allowed. This is something many Indians do not realize themselves, but China and the US realize. They can already see an India doing wonders in development at current per capita. That's why they actively try to sabotage and slow down India. You may be of any political ideology or religion or region in India, but you can't deny that India has been constantly attacked and sabotaged from rising up. It was the British during Nehru, the Americans during Indira, and now China has joined them to derail, destabilize, and disillusion India during Modi. Leave aside politics and you will see clearly outside interference and destabilization efforts on India since independence. From meddling in internal politics to creating protests to outright assassinations of our leaders and innovators. So stop listening to these blackpillers day-in and day-out mocking India comparing it with China when it suits them. They themselves are puppets of a psyop and hence do it, but otherwise will say "India and China can't be compared. China's centuries ahead." I agree India doesn't need to be compared with China. But not because China is centuries ahead (its more like 10 years now), but because India need not be China. India can be better and will be better. And for that every Indian has to do their part without derailing and destabilizing everything in a fit of rage because somethings you want aren't happening soon enough and some are constantly telling you a revolution will sort out everything. The revolution is already happening. Peacefully. The changes will happen, the country will rise, and it is inevitable if there's political stability and current pace of development, India will have much better cities, facilities, and reforms that all want.

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Reject non-understanding. Slop grenades are not just code and PRs. We run a real risk that *reading* gets entirely discounted, because of the exhaustion of getting low-quality and unverified AI prose being thrown at you all the time. There's a thread going viral about a 'perf improvement' attributed to a compiler change. The PR *description* itself has the AI telling this person it's *not* due to the compiler change, it's how the algorithms and data structures have changed. And the implication is that a similar win could have been attained otherwise. I want AI in the service of understanding the universe and enhancing human cognition and creativity.

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