> the robots that make robots will be Western.

is quite reminiscent of the dismissive attitude of many tech people here towards stuff that doesn't originate in the US. It really feels strange to have lived through this change, from a place that used to be pretty cosmopolitan and focused on tech, to a place one can't browse without reading daily jingoistic comments.

It also feels like an atmosphere change rather than a deliberate one, in that people say that stuff casually, almost without thinking about it or the implications thereof. These ideas have permetated so much into the discourse that people don't really scrutinize them before repeating them.