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Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home

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219 points thisisit | 5 comments | 11 Jan 18 16:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.619s | source
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infinity0 ◴[11 Jan 18 18:44 UTC] No.16126528[source]▶
> Of the more than 850,000 AI engineers across America, 7.9 percent are Chinese, according to a 2017 report from LinkedIn.

850,000 sounds way way too high.

> While Chinese engineers are well represented in the Valley, the perception is that comparatively fewer advance to the top rungs, a phenomenon labeled the “Bamboo Ceiling.”

American culture does reward asshole-behaviour a lot more than one can tolerate sometimes. It's definitely not just a conservative problem, so don't go blaming it on Trump.

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mixmastamyk ◴[11 Jan 18 18:51 UTC] No.16126597[source]▶
Sociopaths tend to rise to the top in every organization, sadly.
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1. sremani ◴[11 Jan 18 18:57 UTC] No.16126648[source]▶
I guess you mean psychopaths, Sociopaths are anti-social, so my guess is they are not charming. It's a generalization but you do not get to the top without being persuasive at decent level and to stay there, you better be good.
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2. seanmcdirmid ◴[11 Jan 18 19:07 UTC] No.16126747[source]▶
You’ve got it reversed. Sociopaths lack empathy, but are not anti social. Instead they use manipulative social interaction like a knife to get what they want. Psychopaths are just crazy in comparison.
3. dominotw ◴[11 Jan 18 19:09 UTC] No.16126768[source]▶
> Sociopaths are anti-social, so my guess is they are not charming.

Sociapaths can be charming as means to their ends.

4. mixmastamyk ◴[11 Jan 18 19:11 UTC] No.16126788[source]▶
Sociopaths can be charming, neither are clinical definitions.
5. vinceguidry ◴[11 Jan 18 19:16 UTC] No.16126836[source]▶
You've got it backwards. Psychopathy is a particular variant of Antisocial Personality disorder and is characterized by a complete lack of empathy. The brain wiring literally doesn't exist.

Whereas sociopathy is a learned willingness to completely subvert empathy to serve personal goals. They do have brain wiring for empathy, which is what makes them effective at subverting it.

High-functioning psychopaths generally have to create a 'mask' in order to pass for normal. The mask is quite cognitively expensive and so they tend to prefer solitude. Low-functioning psychopaths tend towards criminality due to poor self-control.