This was very predictable and often happens when countries try to “localize”. Look at how even Mistral is beginning to fall behind since it’s becoming more of a captive sovereign AI play.

Not a Knicks fan (I live in SoCal after all) but the fans deserved this after the Isaiah Thomas era and all the other stuff they went through.

It always amazes me how a nation of shopkeepers (Japan) managed to convince the world it’s a nation of warriors. What’s funnier is how people are convinced China can’t fight when it’s a state that has had continuous warfare for millennia. The post-1979 era is a bit of an anomaly.

After watching tech types worship Jeff Bezos and Elun, the US is in for decades of humiliation. It has all the aesthetics and culture of early 20th century Shanghai: decadent, corrupt, mercantile, and utterly servile to the merchant class and criminals. Outwardly modern outside, but with a seedy underworld. With significant foreigner concessions.

Democrats are a worthless bunch. Only 61!

Many still push the false narrative that current best Chinese AI models have merely been distilled from US closed source models, even when their style of response and quirks are clearly different. Distillation isn't dead, but it doesn't work that well on scale. You cannot achieve a Mythos level model by simply distilling and applying that to a much smaller model. While it might perform well on many simple benchmarks, but will fall behind in novel problem-solving, very long horizon tasks, certain creative tasks. The only way to compete (without major scientific breakthroughs) is the access to vast number of very high quality data and scale the model to massive size. Currently no Chinese AI lab is openly having models of required size category, and neither is Mistral AI from France.

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Right-wing Arabs, Indians, Iranians, and Latin Americans all have a strong aversion to being associated with the “Third World” so they like to punch down and complain about “Third Worldism”. Right-wing Latin Americans often have a meltdown when Anglos say they aren’t Westerners.

Blaming foreigners for incitement is generally the last refuge of a scoundrel. If foreigners are successful in inciting protests, that generally means there were problems that were already present and building up in your society.

It’s a stupid thing period. China is strong in other aspects of AI besides just LLM. Medical equipment AI is something they are very strong in and they actually leapfrogged some of the Western giants like Siemens. All of this crap is pure cope. Their AI talent is legit.

You’re exactly right. The people you call “Third Worldists” really believed what they were told about freedom and equality being for all humanity, not just specific cultures or races.

This must be fake. The monarchists tell me that the people of Iran want the country to surrender unconditionally to the US.

Was only a matter of time before Trump decided to pivot back to Latin America considering Iran is an utter disaster for him.

There is a historical constant: no amount of wealth can liberate a third-rate thinker from intellectual envy or from the deeply degrading sense of scholarly inferiority -- that feeling of impoverished erudition. No amount of wealth.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Boomers are going to learn why their parents were so distrustful of big business and why they practiced antitrust.

Forward ratios are what should be looked at but yeah this is crazy.

SpaceX trades at 94x sales. Nearly 4x the next most expensive company on earth, and 27x more than Amazon. Every other trillion-dollar tech giant earns a fat profit. SpaceX is the only one that loses money. The market is asking you to pay the highest price in the room for the one company in it that earns nothing.

If you think a $300K corporate salary is payment for 40 hours of weekly labor, I've got news for you... There is a persistent cynical narrative that large enterprises are bloated engines of inefficiency, filled with overpaid professionals who spend their days looking at slides and doing "nothing." I mean, it's a comforting myth for critics, but I think it fundamentally misunderstands modern knowledge work. That $300K salary (or $400K, or $500K) isn't a reward for linear effort but an option premium on high-leverage thinking. We are still haunted by the ghost of the assembly line, ie, the outdated idea that compensation must directly correlate with time spent physical output. In the factory world, if you leave your station, production stops, but in the knowledge economy, value is almost totally decoupled from time. Folks... An enterprise paying a senior leader or specialist $25K a month is not buying 160 hours of typing, they are buying *insurance* against catastrophic errors and positioning themselves for asymmetric upside. I'll try to make it tangible with an example... Consider a complex matrix organization busy with a $40M product migration. In this environment, the value distribution of a worker's is heavily spiked. Most days look like nothing... alignment meetings, reading documentation, maintaining steady state. Yes, to an outsider, it looks like "doing nothing." But then a critical day arrives. A vendor fails, a timeline slips, a crossroads appears, whatever... If that $300K professional has the institutional memory and capability to make just 4 or 5 correct decisions during those critical moments, the ROI is staggering! A single right call can avert a $5M problem. Suddenly, that $300K salary doesn't look like bloat but, to me, seems like the cheapest asset on the p&l. These days we are bombarded by tech CEOs promising fully autonomous, AI-driven organizations and I keep saying these pitches miss the entire point of how complex enterprises actually move. Data computation can be outsourced to an LLM but going through the decision fabric of an enterprise cannot. You need people for: > Knowing *how* to build consensus across disconnected departments with competing incentives; > Understanding the unspoken history of why past projects failed, and how to position a new initiative so it doesn't trigger corporate antibodies; > When a multi-million-dollar decision goes sideways, an algorithm cannot stand before a board of directors or regulators and take ownership of the corrective action. An AI can give you a pristine strategic framework with nice and difficult sounding words, but it cannot navigate the human matrix required to execute it. The ability to be effective inside a complex enterprise is a rare AND expensive skillset precisely because it cannot be automated or easily replicated. My point is you aren't paying for the 9-to-5 "grind", but more for the readiness. Like an elite surgeon or an expert technician, you pay for the decades of accumulated knowledge that allow them to fix a crisis in 5 minutes, not the 5 minutes itself.... Leverage, not labor.

The samurais were the “virgins” while the merchants were the “chads” in Edo Japan. This is probably why samurais made up bushido because they were tired of being mocked as nerdy bureaucrats.