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Cake day: January 9th, 2026
  • If the Chinese government is doing this to spread hardware backdoors in all the RAM (technically quite difficult to do without detection, btw, and people will be looking) then it will be in their interests to lower the price of Chinese RAM to well below Western RAM, so the world buys as much as possible.

    I think it’s more likely to be similar to their photovoltaic cell, battery, and industry policy in general: economically dominate the world’s markets and give China all the advantages that the previous industrial centres of the world had.

    The ability to deprive rival nations of valuable resources, or help allied nations by guaranteeing their supply, is incredibly useful, which is why most nations do so if they are able to.

    The US gets backdoors in many electronic systems by simply asking, and in some cases creating laws to do so. Why would China not do the same instead of owning shares in the companies? It’s probably more that they want the Party to financially share in the wealth created by those companies, as well as more directly control their corporate actions.

  • I was having the same fear. Good news! I watched to the end, and spotted the safety ropes they all had on them. They were safe the whole time. Even Scott.

    I wish they’d pointed it out clearly, because they are an example to lots of kids. However, it seems they were not in fact totally stupid.