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Re:China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy by cirath on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @10:59AM (#15018799)
I almost didn't want to type this, because not really sure if trolling or if typing this out doesn't count as pointing out the obvious -- but the implication is that Shen is a victim of the Chinese regime.
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Re:China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy by muro on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:13AM (#15018951)
What nonsense is that? If you are helping to build an oppressive system, you are not the victim, you are complicit / oppressor.
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Re:China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy by wu-ikkyu on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:26AM (#15019093)
It is possible to be both a victim and an oppressor, especially when the oppressors above have great leverage over the subject
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Re:China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy by muro on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:58PM (#15020655)
[edited to be more civil]. Nope, not a victim when he's getting so rich doing it.
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Re:China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy by frozenport on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:13PM (#15020165)
Neil Shen Founding Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital China Real Time Net Worth — as of 8/15/17 $1.06 B (!) https://www.forbes.com/profile/neil-shen/

This guy is actively building the instruments of oppression and making a ton of money doing it. Certainly doesn't match the kind of unilateral oppression connotated by the word "victim".

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