16 mentions · 11 chunks · 10 episodes
I hear that TSMC has a "big red button" to destroy their fabs if China were ever to invade. The belief that such a button exists would be a game theoretic deterrent to invasion. But one thing that it presumes: there will...
...t about a crazy AI-related workplace competition between labor and companies in China.
"It feels like Squid Game": China's workers scramble to keep up in the AI race. A take on the OpenClaw mania in China with a much less optimistic tone. A vibe of "a population pushed ...
China is treating LLMs as a commodity, but the US isn't. The US is treating them like highly specialized IP. The Chinese approach is "AI is totally a commo...
... what. And of course, there's the possibility of open models, especially out of China, catching up. That is a very different end state equilibrium. In that world, there's not a duopoly but a triopoly. There's always one shorter leg of ...
The movable-type printing press was invented in China and Korea hundreds of years before Gutenberg. However those languages had way more characters so it wasn't plausible to scale. It took the printing p...
...'t need to come from a different nation, just a different context. For example, China gets a lot of cross-pollination from internal migrations. The human evolutionary environment is the non-stationary environment. Humans by being nomad...
An insightful take from Grace Shao in Exponential view on the US and China in AI: "The real split is over where each country's tech companies believe the profit will land. China bets on applications; America bets on the mode...
...I safety debates boil down to "We should not build a demon god… but if we don't China would anyway and that's bad… so we should build our own demon god."
...ole. She got it when she was the only American living in a particular region of China. She stood out, which meant she was structurally more likely to get noticed.
...n, but that are oblique enough that the algorithm doesn't notice. Apparently in China people will find characters that look like the word you're trying to say, but don't sound like it. But communication only works if the receiver can r...