China systematically builds insecurity into every political relationship and any product they produce... I suspect even a lump of Chicom-iron right off the forge has an antenna and transmitter built in. China by their own actions is unworthy of trust. So rejecting an explicit chi-com infected surveillance mechanism is a no-brainer. Yes... as if you didn't know... only the paranoid survive.
Arizona is hell-on-earth, with 130-F temps common all summer. For good reasons, companies could not get workers in Antarctica... Arizona is just the flip-side of that coin.
Your thinking of Japanese chefs , not martial arts. Your everyday martial artist is still a street-fighter, while you can set your Rolex by garlic squeezes.
Solly Charlie. Greed like violence is "bone deep" in the human species. Noble savages never existed. Several stone-age fields of slaughter have been found while the historical drum-beat never ends, Greed may be managed/mitigated , but never eradicated.
Well spoken. AI in all its varieties IS over-hyped. With human reasoning/creativity it's turtles all the way down. With current AI you get the top shell and nothing, but word-salad beneath it.
Bad on your tasteless empathy. JapChat generated artforms of any variety are obvious to even pedestrian viewers. Kinda like the difference between mass-produced and free-range chicken. Or the difference between electrostatic and Marantz/Advent hi-fi speakers. There's a race-2-the-bottom surrounding machine and AI-generated content... some peons may embrace it.
Meat-space learns, mechanical space copies. By definition. Unless you believe all digital tek is a mechanical-Turk and information exists only within human awareness... kinda like Wigners friend.
The 3-letter government agencies pay M$ good money to ensure zero-day weaknesses are always present in Microsoft products. Both Chinese and Russian states are heavily subsidized to fall into that trap ( by allowing effectively free Windows variants ). Do you want your Federal tax monies to be wasted ? Same with APPLE though they talk a good line and their back-doors are more subtly hidden.
Human free will is both obvious and manifest for the observant human being. Do I hunt this or that mammoth ? Do I pasture my sheep in this field or that field ? For this many body problem, do I spherical Bessel Functions or Spherical harmonics ? W have influencing biology and sensory/mental experience... but, also free will.
Universal truth: love is productive. It's almost the definition of love. People who love dry-flies tie dry-flies. People who love pointers(*) code arrays. When a man loves a woman they produce a child. For the BELIEVER, this man/woman production reflects the begetting of Jesus Christ from the Father.