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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsWhat a "car" means has fundamentally changed. China changed it.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsXi's splashy subsidies are not what made China grow the way it did.
- 7 days earlier
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsDemographics won't start to hurt China until the 2040s at the earliest.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsChina's leaders tried to resist the typical exodus of labor-intensive manufacturing, but it was inevitable.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsChinamaxxers are tourists who visit Chinese malls on their American salaries, write gushingly about how amazing everything in China is, and then fly back to their suburban American McMansions
- 5 days earlier
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Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsHaving survived, its governing élite and state apparatus spent the next thousand years arranging its institutions so that no imperial general could ever successfully such a thing again. That arrangement kept the emperors and their courts relatively safe. It may also have cost Chinese civilization the ability to lead the Industrial Revolution.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsEurope should put more tariffs on Chinese products, in order to push Chinese companies to make their products overseas -- which will give industrialization a boost in poor countries all over the world.
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Paul Krugman quoted
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work…
Their wordsSo a diesel export ban would probably do little to assuage U.S. concerns about affordability. It would create uncertainty that deters business investment, in energy and other industries. And it would further weaken America’s hand in its geopolitical rivalry with China over energy.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsIt's not too difficult WeChat simply won't work for foreigners As a foreigner, you need another Chinese WeChat user to vouch for you with a QR code or it won't even let you sign up!
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Machine-learning researcher on open language models
Their wordsChinese AI companies are the clear leaders in open weight models.
↗The current balance of power in open modelsinterconnects.ai
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Their wordsOpen-weight models are becoming an essential tool for AI diffusion, and the best path to get ahead of these risks and unbalanced relationships where American companies rely on models built in China is to continue to enable investment in open models in the US.
↗The current balance of power in open modelsinterconnects.ai
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsTrump has thus forfeited America’s claim to moral superiority over China.
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Paul Krugman quoted
Their wordsactually, there are three economic superpowers in the world by this measure. There’s the United States, there’s China, which is clearly number one, and then there’s the EU, which are roughly co-equal.
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Paul Krugman quoted
Their wordsChina is not yet big enough to be the hegemon, but the United States truly is not big enough to be the hegemon. So we are just not in that world anymore.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsExport controls work. "Export controls just make Chinese companies work harder or catch up" is propaganda ass shite
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Noah Smith quoted
Our readingChina is the world's most cyberpunk country.
Their wordsChina is definitely the world's most cyberpunk country at this point.
- 2 days earlier
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Economist at George Mason University
Our readingAI policy discussions should start with China rather than treating it as an afterthought.
Their wordsWhatever your ideas for regulating AI, I say start with China. Do not put China as an afterthought at the end of your proposal, mentioned in a vague wish that something good ought to happen and that maybe the future of humanity can be secured.
↗When discussing AI policy, start with Chinamarginalrevolution.com
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Our readingChina declined U.S. nuclear-talk proposals in 2023 and broke off meaningful arms control talks.
Their wordsDuring the 2023 U.S.-China nuclear talks, America proposed missile-launch notifications, a nuclear crisis hotline, and processes to limit the use of outer space for military conflict. China declined all of those. Blame the U.S. if you wish (do we always keep our word?), but that is what happened. China also broke off meaningful arms control talks.
↗When discussing AI policy, start with Chinamarginalrevolution.com
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Their wordsIf you are reading proposals or for that matter tweets for AI regulation, and the writer does not deal with these China issues in a forthright and very specific manner, you should be very suspicious indeed.
↗When discussing AI policy, start with Chinamarginalrevolution.com
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Zvi Mowshowitz quoted
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase
Their wordsJensen is a maximally cynical commercial and political actor whose one and only goal is to sell Nvidia chips to whoever he can, especially China.
↗Trump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Riskthezvi.substack.com
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Noah Smith quoted
Our readingXi is unpopular in China, as shown by how quickly certain unspecified things are spreading.
Their wordsthe fact that they're flying so quickly shows that Xi is unpopular in China.
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Zvi Mowshowitz quoted
Their wordsThe winner would then be the AIs, not us. That is not to say that the China issue is not real, hence the export controls and attempted international agreement.
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Noah Smith quoted
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Their wordsChina scaled solar and batteries when America refused to, because the CCP got scared of climate change.
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Noah Smith quoted
Our readingThe Chinese Communist Party needs to be made to realize that AI can bring it down from within.
Their wordsWe need the CCP to realize that AI can bring them down from within.
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Haley Nahman quoted
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director
Their wordsIt's hard to escape that economic engine, and easy to mistake its machinations for reality-a supply rising to meet demand, say, rather than a warped supply that whips up demand.
↗#282: Movies “for women”haleynahman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsNext in regulatory capture will be banning open source and/or Chinese models, mark my words
↗With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist timelevels.io
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Our readingSince 2024, the leading open-weight AI models have come from Chinese labs rather than American ones.
Their wordsThe leading open models have all come from Chinese labs since ~2024.
↗Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading Listinterconnects.ai 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsThis is why it's a good thing that American labs are in the lead. If Chinese labs were, their employees wouldn't be able to warn us about threats.
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Our readingFrontier Chinese AI labs are moving toward more restrictive licensing terms for their open models.
Their wordsChinese model makers at the frontier, however, are becoming more restrictive
↗Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licensesinterconnects.ai 1st of 2 in this piece
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsI’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output.
↗Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?lucumr.pocoo.org