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[siegecrossbow]

The problem of trying to ban Chinese models is it's trivially easy to post train fine-tune an open weight model to become a new (American) model. Just example, Cursor's Composer 2.5 is a post-trained fine-tune version of Kimi 2.5. Cursor never touts this but this is well known. It takes a Chinese model and re-makes it into another model. In what universe can you regulated/ban it? It's no longer Chinese anymore as it's post trained.

So think about this, they literally cannot ban it, so what can they do? Anthropic better IPO soon to cash in because long term they have no enduring moat unless they make a breakthrough in AGI which is unlikely with LLMs. There is no justification of all these enormous compute spend if China just releases a free version 6 months later. The moat isn't there if token costs are sky high because you are basically brute forcing it with compute. At some point, open weight models will be good enough for the price point to do most of the routine agentic or coding tasks, and closed source frontier will be left with planning or debugging stubborn problem.

They are making the same mistake they did with semiconductor — emphasis on only the cutting edge tech and ignoring everything else.

 

[GulfLander]

‘We did not adapt and move quickly enough’: IBM CEO’s admission of weakness fails to prevent historic 25% stock crash​

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shares tumbled Tuesday as CEO Arvind Krishna acknowledged in an

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that the company had failed to adapt quickly enough, a blunt admission that followed a surprise earnings miss and sent the stock toward its worst drop in decades.

"These conditions [in markets] require our teams to execute perfectly, and this quarter we faltered," he wrote. "We did not adapt and move quickly enough, and numerous large deals failed to close on the timelines we expected."

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[Chevalier]

It's not just a journalist thing. No one hate China more than the Chinese. I know many people like that. They don't take pride in being Chinese whatsoever and just criticize all days and nights. To the points that I do question if national pride really exists in China. Do these dudes feel more proud if they are born in freaking India instead (which all Indians feel proud of).

I feel like we are all correct when it comes to the motivations of the anti China Chinese crowd.
it’s more that Chinese ppl who are anti China tend to be on the fringes of society, ie cult leaders, conmen, pimps and gangsters, but they are still genetically Chinese so they use the endogenous Chinese intelligence cultivated from Millenia of scholarship and war and direct it against the Chinese state. Some of them are simply selfish and self interested and willing to bring ruin to their Chinese compatriots if only they get rich. A lot of Chinese compradors of the opium war era got rich this way as well.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2078263234508022220

I imagine China would have been much more amenable to this proposition if the French had not partaken in the century of humiliation. Now? Let them suffer.

 

[Quan8410]

I feel like we are all correct when it comes to the motivations of the anti China Chinese crowd.
it’s more that Chinese ppl who are anti China tend to be on the fringes of society, ie cult leaders, conmen, pimps and gangsters, but they are still genetically Chinese so they use the endogenous Chinese intelligence cultivated from Millenia of scholarship and war and direct it against the Chinese state. Some of them are simply selfish and self interested and willing to bring ruin to their Chinese compatriots if only they get rich. A lot of Chinese compradors of the opium war era got rich this way as well.

I feel like being an atheist society is great but somehow I wish China is not ultramaterialistic. It's like the whole point of life is just to make money. Chinese are so focused on money that some of them will sell China for money.

 

[pmc]

Moronic take of the day: EVs save gas - but at what cost?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2077932592876183814

There is project in Rosatom under future time machine to make light weight materials, integrated drives, batteries, choppers, UAVs etc.
It is not just EVs on average are 60% heavier than ICE but payload is also less and very easy to overload. those EV carriers are generally overloaded. I think its about 5 years aways.

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Rosatom will release a crossover with an all-composite body.​

 

[Randomuser]

I feel like being an atheist society is great but somehow I wish China is not ultramaterialistic. It's like the whole point of life is just to make money. Chinese are so focused on money that some of them will sell China for money.

Unfortunately I don't see it getting any better. Not just China but globally.

While the 1% is sucking up all the resources, the rest of us have less and less to work with. No wonder so many people are on the edge so much. Its hard when basic survival is no longer a guarantee. Since a lot of people's wellbeing are tied to jobs that are vanishing quite fast, they really wonder whats next.

 

[GZDRefugee]

I feel like we are all correct when it comes to the motivations of the anti China Chinese crowd.
it’s more that Chinese ppl who are anti China tend to be on the fringes of society, ie cult leaders, conmen, pimps and gangsters, but they are still genetically Chinese so they use the endogenous Chinese intelligence cultivated from Millenia of scholarship and war and direct it against the Chinese state. Some of them are simply selfish and self interested and willing to bring ruin to their Chinese compatriots if only they get rich. A lot of Chinese compradors of the opium war era got rich this way as well.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2078263234508022220

I imagine China would have been much more amenable to this proposition if the French had not partaken in the century of humiliation. Now? Let them suffer.

Absolutely fucking not. China would be an idiot to invest in Europe after Nexperia and the most recent British Steel bullshit. China's response has been weak and ineffective. Do you typically trade with a thief?

 

[horse]

Trying to decide which viral China story dropping today is the most historic.

3. Trump giving nationwide speech accusing China of stealing/influencing 2020 election. Whether its true or not, this is a show of China's soft power/espionage power to be able to literally elect whoever they want in US prez election.

Looking back a couple of years, I wonder which story will be remembered by the broader public.

It will be #3 for sure.

What President Trump is saying, makes no sense.

But, this is the pretext to take over the elections because apparently they have been compromised by the CCP!

So this time, China might not even offer up a rebuttal or denial, because Chinese people like entertainment too.

 

[Temstar]

It will be #3 for sure.

What President Trump is saying, makes no sense.

But, this is the pretext to take over the elections because apparently they have been compromised by the CCP!

So this time, China might not even offer up a rebuttal or denial, because Chinese people like entertainment too.

At the minimum if his party loses the midterm late this year these things pave the way for him to play that old conspiracy card:

 

[horse]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2077837467722629600

Basically Xi came in and said in a polite way to the rest of the world: "我来只办三件事：公平！公平！还是他妈的公平！"

AI is part of class struggle now.

The person who wrote that Tweet is not a Marxist, he would have seen it coming.