It's normal to develop some black technology in the future, right?

Chapter 407 The Impossible Possibility

"We know that Mark went to Shenhai last month to participate in the test flight of China's space shuttle. I would like to ask what Mark felt about it?"

The CBS program created a huge stir among the American elite.

In particular, Mark's views on why America's basic research and aerospace are not feasible were linked by netizens to his past views posted on YouTube and widely circulated on platforms such as reddit, Quora, and Twitter.

"In the past, we have been saying that China does not need to do anything but wait and see, and the Western world will destroy itself.

However, the fact is that China has been doing things, and they always make the right choices. The Western world did not realize that we are facing an unprecedented Leviathan until it could no longer contain the other side. China's development is ten times more terrifying than Brzezinski's most optimistic guess in "The Grand Chessboard".

Even in the aerospace field where America has the most advantages, we successfully landed on the moon in the 1960s. We have received a lot of heritage from Russia. In this field, China is even catching up with us. The most correct point Mark made is that it is time for us to change.

China is always goal-oriented. They don't have any ideology or political correctness. They just want the best results. We are the exact opposite of them.

In the past, we might have thought that China’s pursuit of result correctness would lead to a lack of innovation in their scientific research institutions, which could only follow America in doing some work that lacked originality. America’s pursuit of process justice, although it cannot compare with China in terms of efficiency, is more conducive to real innovation. The benefits brought by these real innovations are enough to eliminate the efficiency gap.

But reality tells us that the correctness of the results does not affect the generation of innovation, and the output brought by efficiency will always produce sufficient innovative results.

On reddit, everyone has always regarded the emergence of Wright as a coincidence, believing that it is the product of good luck of the Chinese. I don’t think so. This is a necessity brought about by China’s large team of engineers and the high investment in education and research and development that it has maintained in the past.

Compared with Wright, Samad, who was able to develop conventional solutions to the RSA encryption algorithm and deep information mining algorithms based on quantum computers, is more like a freak.

Now China has overturned our past cognition from a practical level. Innovation itself is not that rare. It is nothing more than a natural result after a certain amount of investment has been made.

To use the most popular example in recent years, the breakthrough of large models has proved that artificial intelligence relies on computing power, data and algorithms. There is no political correctness in artificial intelligence. The stronger the computing power, the more data fed, and the more efficient the algorithm, the better the model effect.

The same is true for scientific research in the real world. Organizational structures, management standards, etc. are algorithms, the number of scientific researchers is computing power, and R&D investment is data. In the past, data also included information, but because of the sharing of academic information, the data now only includes R&D investment.

Even if process justice can really increase the probability of innovation, it only accounts for a small part of the entire calculation formula. We are lagging behind China in more areas, and we are facing unprecedented difficulties. "

Now it is not just Mark who is reflecting, but the self-proclaimed elite white people in the West are reflecting collectively. A hot post on reddit has demoted the federal government to the ground, saying that the federal government has never made the right decisions.

The prevalence of this discussion has even reached the upper echelons.

"Mark is still too naive."

"Yes, the reason why America is able to dominate the field of scientific research is at most 1% of the credit given to Bush Sr.'s report."

"Yes, a large number of scientists from Europe and Russia came to America and received a lot of their heritage. America's scientific and technological strength is built on this foundation.

With such a solid foundation, it is hard not to develop.”

"Essentially, it's because you can find countless reasons to explain the accident of history, but it is still the accident of history after all. Even if you try to recreate the favorable conditions you think in the accident of history in the inevitable time of history, you can't bring time back to the accident of history."

"It is still possible. If China suddenly collapses, all Chinese scientists and research talents will come to America, and we can once again recreate the glory of the peak of science and technology in the past."

"The most important thing is that Wright has it. Wright alone can defeat thousands of troops."

"It is truly a great loss to the Federation that we were unable to keep Wright."

"Fortunately, the White House changed its direction quickly. If the main force of American scientific research was replaced by Indians as in the past, your investment in scientific research would be in vain. Indians don't have the strength to do so."

"Don't you think it's getting harder and harder to recruit science and engineering talents from China?"

"It is definitely more difficult. For companies like Elon's Tesla, they used to recruit engineers from China to work in America. They would receive hundreds of resumes for one position. Now, they are lucky to get dozens of resumes.

Judging from the background data, the enthusiasm of Chinese science and engineering talents for working in America is plummeting. "

"Because America is becoming less and less attractive now, if I were Chinese, I would also be willing to stay in China."

"Then why are there still so many people going to America?"

"These people can't think about them with normal thinking."

Last time, the Silicon Valley upstarts, led by Musk and Peter Thiel, won a landslide victory in the presidential election.

The former has obtained a cabinet position and regularly goes in and out of the White House. NASA no longer favors Blue Origin and Boeing in terms of funding as it did in the past, but instead takes a relatively neutral position. For SpaceX, neutrality means they win.

The latter pushed an unknown little man to the position of vice president, and also maintained a strong influence on the White House.

After they were deeply involved in an election and made a successful bet, their relationship became closer and their private gatherings became more frequent.

Silicon Valley's upstarts won in the past and clearly hope to win again in the next four years.

Winning once might be a fluke, winning twice is strength, and winning three times is enough to become a force that cannot be underestimated by anyone. Even if they wait for the donkey party to come, they are worth buying off.

And if the Donkey Party comes to power next year, the value of their being bought will become the value of being killed as a warning to others.

They know very well that the Donor Party is not so easy to defeat, and to be precise, it will definitely lose next year's general election.

The economy has not improved in the past four years. The restrictions on Chinese students have been relaxed, and a large number of Chinese science and engineering students have been brought in. The upper-class white people work in finance, law, and medicine, while the lower-class white people work as blue-collar workers, farmers, or do not work at all. Although the Chinese students are snatching jobs that originally belonged to Indians, the repeated exaggeration of the mainstream media will result in the White House not only failing to fulfill its promise, but also increasing the number of immigrants.

Even the new immigrants who are allowed in occupy high-paying jobs.

The New York Times doesn't even need to do much embellishment; simply posting the facts is enough to make supporters from four years ago turn against it.

The economy and military were not good. After fighting with Iran for a long time without gaining any substantial benefits, they declared victory and withdrew their troops.

The military is fine, at least it feeds the military-industrial complex. Attacking Iran is a big piece of cake, and the military-industrial complex, senior military officials, and a group of people inside the White House have all benefited.

But this is also a serious loss of points among the people. First, the election did not win. Second, not only did it not win, but it also further pushed up the American national debt.

We finally managed to find a bright spot, and that bright spot is in the field of science and technology, hoping that returning to the moon could give us a shot in the arm.

The stage was set, the cameras, lights, props, music, etc. were all ready, and the victory screen was about to be played, but the person was replaced. If I were to describe the four years of this White House in four words, it would be that nothing was accomplished.

Rumor has it that the Donor Party can win next year's presidential election even if it leads a donkey.

Under such circumstances, it is obvious that if the Donor Party takes over, they will all be greatly affected, and the most direct impact will be tax increases.

The general election is still more than a year away, but the potential candidates of the Democratic Party are more radical than each other. The tax increase policies they call for are said to be the most stringent tax increase plan for the rich since the 21st century.

There is a limit to strictness. It is impossible to go back to the Roosevelt or Eisenhower eras. In the former, the highest tax rate for the rich could reach 81%, while in the latter it was an exaggerated level of 91%.

The former is to win S2, and the latter is to fund the Cold War.

Even if it is not as bad as these two special periods, the proposals put forward by the Democratic Party can be said to be as painful as cutting flesh for wealthy people like them.

Not to mention that in addition to the tax increase, their businesses will also be affected, and SpaceX can forget about continuing to receive support from NASA.

"Have you heard about it?" Peter Thiel's face was unusually serious. "I heard a very bizarre but somewhat true rumor."

Others looked at him: "What's the rumor?"

"It is said that the financiers behind the Donkey Party have joined hands to obtain the room-temperature superconductor synthesis technology from China," said Peter.

After he finished speaking, everyone present was shocked.

The so-called elite white people in the outside world are nothing more than those who have attended college and have normal logic and cognition. In America, this is already considered elite.

Those present here are undoubtedly the elites among the elites. They have all benefited from the past Internet wave to varying degrees. Their views are very similar. Room-temperature superconductivity is a bug-level technology, and the biggest gap between America and China now comes from room-temperature superconductivity.

"what?"

"impossible!"

"Do they understand why the news didn't spread? Why didn't the capital market react at all?"

"There's no way the White House doesn't know about this!"

No one believed this was true, no wonder Peter described it as very bizarre.

"Yes, I didn't believe it before, but I checked with different people and found that the news has a certain degree of credibility." Peter said, "They spent a long time and a lot of effort.

All the Federation's forces in China, both overt and covert, were exposed and exhausted by them, but they succeeded and obtained the specific process parameters. "

"You mean the deep state people worked with them and then they stole the technology from China?" Musk asked.

Peter nodded: "Yes."

"But why don't they make this technology public? It could be worth trillions of dollars." Musk still didn't understand.

"Because of interests, the MG faction is now in power. The credit for America's breakthrough in room-temperature superconducting technology should be left to the Donkey Party. The series of economic stimulus plans, scientific research investment and application output that come with it will have to wait until the Donkey Party comes to power.

It is precisely because of the expectation of room-temperature superconductivity that the financial backers behind the Democratic Party can support such a huge tax increase plan.

The application transformation and economic stimulus plans related to room-temperature superconductivity will be left to the donors of the Democratic Party.

This is the fundamental reason why the Donkey Party dared to be so radical this time."

It is obvious that in 2024, the Elephant Party shouted for tax cuts, large tax cuts, even though voters did not know how to cut taxes and increase or reduce the fiscal deficit at the same time, but loud slogans can always win votes.

The Democratic Party should call for tax increases and increased welfare, but they dare not do so. Even if they have to express their stance on this tax increase plan that they have traditionally supported, their stance will be very, very mild.

In 24, the Democratic Party candidate called for imposing new taxes on financial transactions, including a 0.2% tax on stock transactions, a 0.1% tax on bond transactions, and a 0.002% tax on derivative commodity transactions. All of them are terribly low.

Why did they speak so quietly before and dare not shout slogans for substantial tax increases? To put it bluntly, it was because they did not dare to offend the financial backers behind them. There are quite a few Wall Street tycoons behind the Donkey Party.

Now they suddenly dare to call for tax increases, and they are so radical. Now the Silicon Valley upstarts present here finally understand where the Donor Party's confidence comes from.

The derivative benefits brought by room-temperature superconducting technology are indeed enough to satisfy the appetite of the Democratic Party’s financial backers.

This piece of cake is big enough.

The profits that the space plane will bring from regular Earth flights are enough to create another Boeing.

"It's really possible."

"Why didn't they announce it now? Would they waste two years of development for China?"

"The Donkey Party would rather China have a greater advantage than allow the Elephant Party any chance of a comeback."

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed due to factional strife. The current level of factional strife in America is no less than that in the late Ming Dynasty.

Musk took a breath and said, “So they want to use the benefits brought by the breakthrough of room-temperature superconducting technology to stay in the White House for eight years.

How many illegal immigrants can be brought in in eight years?

If the dividends brought by room-temperature superconductivity in the past eight years and the benefits distributed to the lower-class people by tax increases are taken into account, it may even be possible for them to be in charge of the White House for 16 consecutive years.

16 years is enough to turn Texas blue. No, I have to go to Singapore right away.

If you don’t start preparing now, it will be too late.”

(End of this chapter)