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Lieber acknowledged being “young and stupid” in getting involved with China’s Thousand Talents Program, the state-backed initiative to recruit overseas experts, his lawyer told the court in 2021. When he was arrested in 2020, Lieber told FBI agents he “wanted to win a Nobel Prize” and be recognized for his work, according to prosecutors.
The FBI declined to comment and the Justice Department didn’t respond to questions.
The Lieber case illustrates a broader failure of U.S. policy, some analysts say.
“If you think of him as a vector for tech acquisition that runs contrary to U.S. interests, we identified that, punished him, and that did nothing to stop the big-picture trend,” said Emily de La Bruyère, co-founder of China-focused consultancy Horizon Advisory and a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonprofit research institute considered hawkish on foreign policy. Gerstell, the former U.S. official, described Lieber as “Exhibit A” in how U.S. legal tools are inadequate.
“This is a guy who was convicted of precisely the thing that we want him to be convicted of in this context, and yet the minute he’s released from house arrest, he’s off in China,” he said.
Lmao good for him. I pray for the opportunity to help China with my talents.
Yeah let’s put scientists on house arrest after running a red scare campaign on every university for decades, that will surely help with the brain drain
hmm i wonder if the US has done this before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
The difference in this case that makes it sweeter in my opinion is that it seems Lieber left of his own volition. Xuesen looks to be exchanged for a POW before making the Dongfeng missile. Lieber was being pushed through a legal meat grinder for paperwork and tax bullshit and generally treated poorly. So he just left for someone who appreciated labor. Two different flavors of schadenfreude, one cruel and stupid country
lol imagine having your name almost literally (and homophonous with) “money student”
That concern is amplified because of Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy, whereby civilian scientific resources and research are shared with the military.
Unlike the US where there is a hard wall between civilian science and the military right, right, right, right?!
“China has weaponized against us our own openness and our own efforts for innovation,” said Glenn Gerstell, a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former general counsel of the U.S. National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020. “They’ve flipped that and turned it around against us, and they’re taking advantage of it.”
LMAO as if the US hasn’t spent a century stealing anything it could from anyone it could rip off. Boo hoo we need more secrecy and less scrutiny of our mad science efforts. Otherwise those Asiatic hordes could never come up with this on their own. Only the divine anglo-brain-pan could possibly bring about innovation.
That magnanimous openness, where all the research is done by mininally compensated international students under constant threat of deportation.
Shocking that they’d go home to work in a lavishly funded lab where that’s not the case.
The USA just can’t help but look a gift horse in the mouth. International grad students are viewed with such suspicion… and yet, are one of the fundamental innovators powering the engine of the US economy. Lieber’s grad students are a perfect example: a lot of people think he was training an ominous horde of Asians who are presumably doing nefarious things such as advancing medical science at USA universities.
embedding electronics into the human brain
pass
If you were a paraplegic then you might feel differently I suspect.
100% fair actually
I had the same initial reaction you did, but I think it’s just because of people like Musk trying to do sicko shit with it that I just immediately had that association despite the fact that there are countless legitimate medical applications.
yep yep you’re reading my mind
Yeah but not through psychic powers, you have an unsecured ssh version runnnng on your StemConnect
aw fuck
Can’t wait to have my first aneurism after someone runs a fresh exploit on the ASN.1 parser running directly on my neurons
Paraplegics would be like 50th in line for this kind of neuroprosthesis. Most paraplegics would probably forego experimental neurosurgery in order to get a slightly better mobility aid. (Which at this point is the best this can do. Which isn’t nothing. But the number of people who hate their wheel chair that much isnt as high as you may think)
You may be thinking of tetra/quadriplegics.
EDIT:I should not speculate on the future of health technologies.
I mean they’re already using this tech to help paraplegics in China today https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03101-8
That’s not what the article says. The article does not mention paraplegics. It mentions paralysis. The two are related but distinct terms.
Here’s your hint dude. If it mentions a glove that can move your hand , it is not going to do anything for someone who is paraplegic.
ok what about this then? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00849-6
Zero mention of paraplegia or paraplegics. That one does mention tetraplegics/quadroplegics as a possible group to receive this kind of neuroprosthetic. As i said prior, i believe you may be conflating “paraplegia” and “tetraplegia”/“quadriplegia” and “paralysis” into one thing.
Edit: Let’s define our terms so we don’t end up starting an argument unnecessarily
Paralysis: an inhibition of motor function. I.e. something that is supposed to be able to move, isn’t. (Palsies are also considered a form of paralysis, but let’s keep it simple for now) This covers everything from sleep paralysis to tetraplegia/quadriplegia, really everything apart from mechanical obstructions (generally) counts.
Paraplegia: Disturbance of the motor and sensory function of the legs and lower body. Likely due to some congenital affectation of the spinal canal or spinal injury. Some paraplegics can walk, some can’t even move a single muscle, some have absolutely no feeling south of the navel, some have most of their sensory functions intact, and some have a spastic disorder. It’s a wide spectrum. But if it affects your hands it is not paraplegia.
Tetra/quadriplegia: there’s some technical reason tetra ia more correct tham quadri but I forget it. You banged your cervical spine (Neck) and now your motor functions below that are impaired, sensory functions may also be inhibited. Just as with paraplegia its a wide spectrum but importantly it covers arms AND legs (Hence quadri [four] plegia).
I don’t really follow how this distinction relates to the original point I was making to be honest. Please explain why it matter which specific disability the chip helps alleviate?
hoping China has strict safeguards against the kind of cruelty to primates that Musk has me associating with this kind of research
Okay you’ve now helped every paraplegic on earth.
However every human being in a capitalist system from now until the sun engulfs the planet is a slave unable to ever break free due to brainwashing, surveillance, and control chips implanted in all humans within these societies to prevent revolt. This is forced with economic coercion and later done at birth as an “equality” measure since you can no longer work, get benefits, etc without one.
You’ve made a small number better but doomed humanity to be a slave race. Good job. Not a worthwhile trade off.
Such a thing should exist under communism but under capitalism it will be used to design unbreakable chains to subjugate humanity to the end of time and that and the suffering it will bring is unacceptable.
This is why I view even Chinese efforts as terrifying. Their research will not stay in China, it will be taken by the west and used in horrendous ways. Man is not responsible enough yet to have this kind of technology.
It’s pretty clear that capitalists have been maintaining social control in the west without any need for chips just fine. We don’t need some sci-fi tech, we’re already living in a society where people are atomized and unable to organize in a meaningful way.
They want total control without having to maintain states.
It’s pretty clear that you need something akin to state structure to maintain that level of control in practice.
Not if you have technology akin to magic.
Not saying this will happen but there are definitely billionaires fantasying about it and them trying and failing can still have outcomes.
Sure, people can fantasize about all kinds of stuff, but what matters at the end of the day is what’s materially possible.
the west is gonna research shit like that anyway though see: neuralink
Brain chips can be hacked, universal brain control is one communist virus away from handing the entire workforce over to the CCP
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