Right, and more broadly speaking, I don’t think that current gen LLMs are the be all and end all of neural networks. There are lots of new papers that make really interesting proposals that people haven’t even began implementing seriously. And most of them are coming out of China.

Thing is, none of these things are actually that hard to do. And companies like Alibaba are already doing these things as well. Here are just a few examples:

• https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/document-1948497434959151104
• https://www.alizila.com/alibabas-qwen-app-integrates-with-amap-to-deliver-seamless-ai-powered-travel-planning/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/alibaba-takes-major-step-to-link-taobao-shopping-to-main-ai-app
• https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/telcos-media-tech/alibaba-debuts-openclaw-app-feed-chinas-agentic-ai-addiction

We’re in very early stages of this tech, and I don’t think any one company has a definitive lead right now because so much stuff is being discovered literally on weekly basis. It’s entirely possible a new idea like SpkingBrain is going to make current gen models obsolete entirely. So, companies like Anthropic that invested a ton of resources into their model would end up back at square one having to train a whole different type of model.

I disagree, I don’t see US models being that far ahead at all. The speed all this moves at, the current architecture of the models might itself end up being obsolete. What’s far more important is accessibility, and Chinese models are killing there because they’re open. Even big US companies like Amazon now use Qwen and other Chinese models internally.

And as you note, most of really interesting applications are in China cause that’s where the industry is.

let’s just say satanic is an accurate description of the atrocities

Yeah, we it tends to be used more on the right to describe western hegemony since they don’t want to call it what it is.

I mean did you read the Epstein files?

I really love the quote how an egg broken from the outside is food, but one broken from the inside is life. It’s such a perfect allegory for why values cannot be imposed from the outside.

I think so as well, they basically have to solve the problem of surrounding them with bases the same way Russia had to solve their Ukraine problem.

Haha I think he’s old enough to actually be retired at this point.

He’s an ex CIA analyst, and seem to know what he’s talking about. His commentary on Ukraine has been largely correct, so I tend to put some stock into what he says.

Seems like they can just wait for the south to collapse at this point. There’s a huge demographic crisis there. Soon they’re not going to have enough of a working age population to even field a proper military or run their society.

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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I definitely think it’s the latter, because vast majority of people don’t really think about AI at all. It’s exactly as you say, there’s just an online bubble where people are eager to signal group membership to each other, and they just rally around talking about how much they hate AI. I also think there are a bunch of grifters using this as a low hanging fruit to grow their subscribers.

And breaking out of the liberal mainstream is no small achievement. We’re all products of our environment, and when everybody holds common beliefs around you, the process of questioning that is not easy. You often feel like you’re the one taking crazy pills when you start discarding mainstream beliefs. Learning is a continuous process, we all hold incorrect ideas in our heads, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The key is developing the ability to introspect, to self criticize, and to grow your understanding.

Very much agree, and have exact same view on the whole AI hysteria. Slop has been with us for a very long time already. In fact, I’d argue that a much better way to decide whether something is slop or not is by focusing on its purpose rather than the medium. Any piece of advertisement is inherently slop, even if it was painted by artisans using oils on canvas. It exists for the sole reason to convince you to buy something.

Yeah, that would be incredible to see.

This sort of stuff has to happen organically in my opinion. What the state can do is facilitate this kind of internet by providing people with free hosting for example. The tools for this already exist, I’d argue the Fediverse model is the perfect way to do this. The problem the original internet had was discoverability. If you had your blog, then people would have to find it through web rings or word of mouth. With the ActivityPub, you get organic propagation of content through the network. In my opinion, that’s the missing piece.

The two barriers that exist right now are hosting costs and technical know how to maintain your own server. And that’s the sort of thing that could be subsidized by the state. I think it would be absolutely fantastic if China or Vietnam gave everyone an option to spin up a personal site that was federated, and people could just do whatever there.

I very much agree, the kind of content we had before the internet was overrun by corps was just regular people putting things online because they wanted to express themselves, or share some idea they had. This is the most genuine type of human expression, the basic urge to connect with others for no other reason than to just communicate. People weren’t trying to gain followers, monetize their content, or become influencers. I think that type of internet is far more compatible with socialist principles.