I would not ascribe malice on the part of Dr Chen.
Yale does not have a single unified campus and buildings are scattered all around New Haven.Chen works at the School of management, which is isolated physically from the rest of the campus. It is quite possible that he has not spoken to the other researchers in psychology.
I have also taken a class with Dr Chen, and he is a young, geeky looking guy who is hilariously funny and keeps joking about him and his PS3. So from personal experience, it appears unlikely that he is the kind of guy who'd pick fight for personal reasons. On the other hand he is fond of mathematical curiosities as applied to real life, here is my notes on some class where I disagreed with him. He took the time out to discuss the issue with me and explain it as much as he could (though I still don't understand why donating medical equipment to China is a bad idea).
You missed a big part of the equation - Fabs
Intel always have enjoyed the technology advantage in fabrication and has been around a year ahead of AMD. Fabs are capital intensive and AMD keeps losing there - IBM has helped AMD occasionally, but I can't see them catch up any time.What is impressive is that AMD is energy competitive using a previous technology, if they could manufacture on Intel's tech, they'd be wiping the floor with Intel
ou can't expect people who have lived their entire lives following certain patterns and expecting certain limitations to be freed one day from the other and expect them to pick up life as usual. And if you don't believe that just take a look at what happened in (former) Eastern Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so on.
I agree that it might be difficult and agree in general with your post. In fact there is a post on my blog about it.
But if I may nitpick, your examples don't really hold up. East Germany changed dramatically after the fall of the wall. In fact the current chancellor is from former east Germany. Iraq never had a problem with censorship (atleast compared to Iran) - and after fall of Saddam the spread of information has only improved. Saddam's hanging was infact spread through mobile phones. Afghanistan was a hellhole for information, it still is. But I would say that the current situation in Afganistan is waay better than what it was under the Taliban (what with the destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas and all).
So it appears that the examples you gave are not those of pure chaos, but of rapid and dramatic improvements.
I think that a culture of free press and (relatively) non violent protests is important for the spread of information in a society - give China sometime and it should work out. It is not like Chinese are somehow more stupid of stubborn amongst us.
Here is a blog article that shows the effects that Internet and Phones have had on various societies.
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I would not ascribe malice on the part of Dr Chen.
Yale does not have a single unified campus and buildings are scattered all around New Haven.Chen works at the School of management, which is isolated physically from the rest of the campus. It is quite possible that he has not spoken to the other researchers in psychology.
I have also taken a class with Dr Chen, and he is a young, geeky looking guy who is hilariously funny and keeps joking about him and his PS3. So from personal experience, it appears unlikely that he is the kind of guy who'd pick fight for personal reasons. On the other hand he is fond of mathematical curiosities as applied to real life, here is my notes on some class where I disagreed with him. He took the time out to discuss the issue with me and explain it as much as he could (though I still don't understand why donating medical equipment to China is a bad idea).
You missed a big part of the equation - Fabs
Intel always have enjoyed the technology advantage in fabrication and has been around a year ahead of AMD. Fabs are capital intensive and AMD keeps losing there - IBM has helped AMD occasionally, but I can't see them catch up any time.What is impressive is that AMD is energy competitive using a previous technology, if they could manufacture on Intel's tech, they'd be wiping the floor with Intel
I agree that it might be difficult and agree in general with your post. In fact there is a post on my blog about it.
But if I may nitpick, your examples don't really hold up. East Germany changed dramatically after the fall of the wall. In fact the current chancellor is from former east Germany. Iraq never had a problem with censorship (atleast compared to Iran) - and after fall of Saddam the spread of information has only improved. Saddam's hanging was infact spread through mobile phones. Afghanistan was a hellhole for information, it still is. But I would say that the current situation in Afganistan is waay better than what it was under the Taliban (what with the destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas and all).
So it appears that the examples you gave are not those of pure chaos, but of rapid and dramatic improvements.
I think that a culture of free press and (relatively) non violent protests is important for the spread of information in a society - give China sometime and it should work out. It is not like Chinese are somehow more stupid of stubborn amongst us.
Here is a blog article that shows the effects that Internet and Phones have had on various societies.