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This is like the mirror image of the popular Chinese content of picking a few homeless scenes of the US and painting the whole image of US life experience from it.

Obviously, the author has deep engagement with the Chinese internet culture (the "junk food" part that I would avert), but the over generalization is comical.

Or maybe that's the point? The author is trying to be provocative? For someone with zero background of the Chinese internet culture, this could be a starting point (although an extreme one), but don't take this to represent the whole reality.

One example, the quoted book review of Three Body Problem draws the complete opposite conclusion that the aliens are Chinese. To anyone with actual Chinese culture context, they are obviously "Westerners".

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- Far more advanced technologies.

- The Trisolarians cannot lie, so that becomes the only advantage of humanity. -> Art of War

- The Trisolarians are blocking physical experiments to stop science and technology advancement. -> Entity list and export control. Huawei.

- The factions in human that supports the invasion. -> Evans hated humanity because of The Silent Spring, which is supposed to represent the Western self-guilt culture.

- The emaciated generation that failed at launching the mutually assured destruction device is an image of "Westernized" generation.

The overarching background of the book is a discussion of which direction that China should take after 1989 stopped the democratization process and drove the Western powers into hostility. The author Cixin Liu has a more or less social darwinism answer for that ("Dark Forest"). Not that he endorsed social darwinism, but that's the main theme of the book.

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To be fair, if the two words indeed don't appear in either the webpage or the codebase, it is a bit strange. It's like implementing a whole Google alternative without ever using the words "search engine".

In Morocco?

My guess would be the version number tracks the architecture change, not the weight change.

For the sake of argument, let's assume everything in the post is agreed upon, does this mean

1. They'll open source the alignment technology? For open weight models, it's the only possible way to pass the safety without an external guardrail triggering system (which would be the same to open and closed weight models).

2. They'll allow others (including CCP) to define part of the safety test? Otherwise, I can't imagine how the CCP would be onboard.

3. A "western" model passing the safety test can be trained with distillation? Or is that a "distillation attack" as well?

Even if that's the case, the tragedy should have been disclosed reponsibily.

The fact that the parents had to make further efforts to go through their daughters death to warn others just feels wrong.

That language should be called Fusion and this language Fission.

Some providers in the UK issue debit cards with limited interest-free overdraft and charge back features. So they are basically credit cards if you squint your eyes enough.

Vision has been in A/B testing for a while now (at least in China). Is there an official announcement that this will be available for everyone?

Nix also needs the build output to be deterministic to calculate the hash. It also has the problems of timestamps etc. The build environment tries to be hermetic by setting the time to be epoch among other things.

In his later years (late 1980s), he also advocated for AI and human superpower research.

The superpower thing turned out to be pseudoscience later. As a result of being lumped together, for a long period of time, AI was regarded as pseudoscience in China as well.

Although to be fair, during the same period, the US and the USSR were researching superpowers as well.

While in Japan, I heard an urban legend that, it typically takes 5 accumulated years for a foreigner to acquire hay fever in Japan.