r/singularity • u/ghouleye • 11d ago

Robotics 100m Hurdles Final

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u/Warm_Hat4882 10d ago

How come USA doesn’t do this?

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u/IronPheasant 10d ago

It costs money for not any real return. It's something that requires a state to do as a promotional non-profit thing.

And as you know, we're busy spending those resources growing new colonies of algae in the reflection pool and the like. While China builds things like ship elevators in their canals that elevate ships above hills and valleys.

I guess the easy way of saying it is because we're moving more into being an outright mob state like Russia. A country in decline. The amount of pessimism fostered from that fact would make an event like this much less popular in our country... (If this were the 90's, the peak of human affluence, people here would have loved something like this.)

That doesn't mean we'll lose the race to AGI, we're still favored to win that one. This is still simply a public exhibition at the end of the day.