Fable is great because it will dig a hole to China if I ask it to.
Fable is great because it will dig a hole to China if I ask it to. Fable is frustrating because it will sometimes dig a hole to China even if I didn't ask it to.
Topic: china
21 mentions · 14 chunks · 12 episodes
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1.7x burst in 2025 Q3
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- china appears in 14 chunks across 12 episodes, from 2024-10-07 to 2026-08-03.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/18/25 (2025-08-18), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Sam Altman, printing press, and Openclaw, while by chunk count it sits between emergence and Hacker News; its yearly rank moved from #146 in 2024 to #44 in 2026.
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Capitalism-weighted AGI is focusing on problems like coding over robotics.
...ill take much longer to start making money. The US is focusing on coding, while China is focusing on robotics[b].
Overheard: "It's a three way race between a delusional philosopher king, Macchiavelli, and China."
..."It's a three way race between a delusional philosopher king, Macchiavelli, and China."
I hear that TSMC has a "big red button" to destroy their fabs if China were ever to invade.
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...
A fascinating tweet about a crazy AI-related workplace competition between labor and companies in China.
...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.
"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.
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...
OpenAI is looking at a Log in with ChatGPT offering.
... 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.
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...
One downside of giving more voting rights to those who were there the longest?
...'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:
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...
Just because "someone else will do it if I quit" does not absolve you of responsibility.
...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."
Schelling points are lighting rods for luck.
...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.
A tactic people use to avoid algorithmic censorship: "Voldemorting"
...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...