There’s a difference between “some people try to commit fraud” and “China is inflating its numbers to look innovative when it’s actually not”.

Of course some people commit fraud. Of course, some people actually do try to take government money and run with it.

The former is basically true in every single country no matter where you look. The latter is actually the conspiracy theory that China isn’t innovative because “1.4 million patents are all universally bullshit” or something to that extent.

That’s my 2c

Keep in mind these are conspiracy theories. Literally. 1.4 million patent applications? How many people have to be “in” on it before someone speaks about the lie? At some point the lack of evidence is damning. This can’t possibly be true without clear and obvious evidence.

Sent! Good luck!

Though I’m not in electronics, I am in software development, and I have tried using various language models for basic circuit development for very small side hobbies, and I have found it to be mixed at best.

It works better when it’s integrated into a search engine so that it has real humans explaining things so that they can just do the summary and not build something from scratch.

Efficiency problems aside (hopefully R1 keeps us focused on increasing efficiency while still being useful), I find it super useful when you set a pattern and let it fill it out for you.

On a side project, I built out 10 or 15 structs and then implemented one of them in a particular pattern and I just asked it to finish off the rest. I did like 10% of the work, but because I set the pattern, it finished everything else flawlessly.

“It is difficult and time-consuming to do the work to lie about China all the time.”

Fixed that for you Beth!

Didn’t I put this in freechat? It was a rant. You can stop gatekeeping now.

I absolutely love this guy because he’s actually not pro-China for the most part (that I know of). He just understands that they’re beating America at their own game.

Sometimes he’ll say something, and I think to myself, Dammit, don’t tell them! Stop interrupting my enemies when they’re making a mistake!

For the military, I’m sure this is a cost-cutting measure. I’m guessing they get to fire some people And make the rest of them work double time, but with AI assisting them.

For the working people, it’s another argument that you can point to to get people radicalized :D

Yeah they all do that to each other. Pretty standard practice actually.

The big deal is the low cost, and using weak GPUs, to train a comparable AI.

Trumps gonna be Trump though. Embarassing to live here.

Yeah, unfortunately we’ve known that for a while.

There were actually some Google employees that protested this, and they’ve all been fired, of course.

Exactly. The people who spout “apolitical” all the time are just a part of the global elite.

It’s the rich that will tell the poor to stop being political and go find a job.

It’s the white people who will tell the black people to just stop doing crime instead of getting political.

It’s always your boss that says to keep politics out of the office, just show up on time and do your job.

The oppressor always tell the oppressed to stop getting political. Because getting “political” is the only way that you could potentially stop the oppression.

Bro, just one more compromise with the fascists, bro. Bro, if we just compromise one more time, everything will be fine!

A note about those queues.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the difference between policy and material conditions. The USSR wouldn’t have had queues (or very long queues) if they were a rich country like the United States. Any socialist country that is rich would have plenty of materials that nobody would ever have to wait in line (at least not a long line, no longer than in current day USA)

Of course, under socialism, certain excesses would be limited, but at the same time, if your country literally already had what it needed because of the overcapacity built by capitalism, then under socialism, basically all needs would be met very easily.

I need to do some more reading by other people on this topic because I’m no expert, but it makes sense to me.

Libs are worried about it, reference: https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/deepseek-crushes-openai-o1-with-an-mit-licensed-model-developers-are-losing-it/

So my experience right now with using & reading about AI and the opinions and feelings from people about the AI is that China is still a little bit behind, but catching up so insanely fast that everybody should just agree that they’re already ahead of the United States and that the race is on. (Oh and they’re running on last year’s hardware because they’re banned from getting the latest Nvidia chips, so they’re actually training better AI, with weaker processors, and less data. Though they are probably leveraging ChatGPT for some data generation, which is what most people who build open models do anyway.)

Eric Schmidt was a previous CEO of Google, and still a board member. 9 Months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cnce06/eric_schmidt_says_the_us_is_23_years_ahead_of/ Last month: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5042031-artificial-intelligence-danger-eric-schmidt/

Eric is about as libed up as you can get (Co-wrote a book with Henry Kissinger…) So if he admits that China has caught up and will surpass us, it’s because the evidence is OVERWHELMING. This would be the equivalent of orthodox Jews admitting that Israel is committing a genocide. If THEY are saying it, it’s been true for a LOOONG time and is undeniable.

Also, they are open sourcing their models, which is freaking awesome. Anyone can use the absolute massive beast of R1 and compete with o1 directly, without even training their own models.

Also Colloquially, AI’s trained in China absolute dominate the open source rankings. Qwen2.5, DeepSeek 3, DeepSeek R1, QwQ (Qwens equivalent to R1) and derivatives from these lead almost every category. LLama (Facebook) is right behind though. For small models, Phi (Microsoft) is up there (Good for running on your phone or laptop, but not the smartest).

AI moves so fast that by the time you’re done reading this something will be out of date 🙃

What I’m curious about, and have not yet asked on 小红书, is whether there is an online space that kids aren’t allowed in so that people can talk about things that they don’t want kids to be exposed to, but isn’t illegal.

LGBTQ topics come up first. Their excuse is, hey, we don’t want kids seeing that, but it’s totally fine if you are and it’s not illegal. So I wonder if there’s a place that you can talk about that stuff that is age restricted.

On a separate note, to keep everything in one comment, I do think that America brains have some issues with censorship that they don’t understand. Sure, the government doesn’t have that many rules around censorship, but every single platform does, and you’re gonna get kicked off or banned from one platform or another for saying certain things. It’s just that in America, those things are inconsistent, and you can get banned for whatever reason the CEO wants you to be. This just fractures our online environments and creates tribalism, which leads to more infighting, not less.

Don’t feel bad about feeling like you’re going down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Obviously be conscious of that and be careful, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of anti-China sentiment is a conspiracy theory in the first place.

I am a white guy, not an Asian American, but I’m glad that Asian Americans like you have class consciousness and understand what this country is truly about with regards to its propaganda. Obviously, most people who have immigrated here from communist countries have done so because they are capitalist friendly. I tried explaining this to a friend of mine when we were talking about the USSR. He said, oh, all the people here say how bad the USSR is. And I said, of course they do. They fled the USSR. They obviously don’t agree with its practices. The vast majority of people that stayed behind actually have positive feelings about the USSR In retrospect.

To be fair, I probably pushed him a little hard when I said that a lot of people that fled were the slave owners and horrible people, and he felt that I was implying that the descendants of those people are all horrible people too, which I didn’t mean to say. But that’s another off-topic rant.

One of the reasons that I fell in a commie-rapid hole is because I started actually looking at the evidence, supposed evidence rather, that Americans and NGOs and think tanks were pushing about their anti-China agenda. As someone who prides myself on being science-based and evidence-based, and when I was a liberal, someone who cared a lot about being correct in terms of scientific thinking, I found these “studies” terrible. Often refuting the claims that are in the title of the study itself or even if the title didn’t make that claim it was the news agency that did. Basically everything that these liberals are saying that the alt-right do to push their lies is exactly what the liberals do and they just eat it the fuck up because CNN/BBC said it instead of Fox News.

Very frustrating indeed.

As I mentioned in my other reply, that was actually what signaled me to come here and make this post because it was such a darn good video! And then they had to just go and ruin it by being like “nope sometimes we put our heads in the ground too”, and like… Ugh… damn it this is why I’m not a liberal anymore.

That’s actually literally what reminded me of it. And then my head went down this entire spiraling track and I was like, I gotta write this down.

This little interaction where you corrected the translation is why I love this platform.

It’s a simple translation misunderstanding, and when are corrected, we take it in stride and just say “oh that was silly”. Turns out it’s no big deal, and we laugh it off.

My brain is still too primed from the rest of the internet where, hypothetically, calling this out, even when it’s true, would become a big controversy.