"DeepSeek is the latest in a spate of breakthroughs from China to shock the U.S. It won’t be the last. The more the West refuses to tear down its own barriers to understanding China, the more it will be caught off guard in the future."
"DeepSeek is the latest in a spate of breakthroughs from China to shock the U.S. It won’t be the last. The more the West refuses to tear down its own barriers to understanding China, the more it will be caught off guard in the future."
What's there to understand? The CCP is authoritarian and the only way to 'revolutionize' anything is to become more open and free. So in essence, they need to become more like the west.
China usually innovates with technologies that allow them to control their people more effectively: in the 90s it was lethal injection technology, the GFW (Great Firewall), facial-recognition and tracking technology, and now AI (which will also be used to track and control the population).
This attitude is exactly the problem. The US can barely build civilian ships and BYD makes better cars than most of Detroid. China seems awfully big on the rearview mirror and people are putting their heads on the sand.
I have no idea why China would bother implimenting EULV techniques when they can import it at-cost. America didn't bother either, and when we did realize we had to care, we just bribed TSMC to break ground on US soil.
Arguably Europe is better than America in this regard, since EUCLIDES was bootstrapped with European tech.
No matter what expressive nickname you use, there are natural limitations in vision that cause some well-heeled players to throw away billions before the first Pikachu gasp catches on. That's how they get these nicknames.
No big deal, they can afford it, easy come easy go.
Is copying something and then lying about how much it cost you to do it really a surprise? The only surprise for me was that so many people, especially people here, took China's word at face value.
> The DeepSeek shock exposes an uncomfortable truth: American tech exceptionalism and the xenophobia that underpins it mean the broligarchy will keep being surprised.
Granted there is more to xenophobia than just demographics, but it should be noted that, in this sample [1], Whites are underrepresented at 18/23 of tech companies, while Asians are overrepresented at 23/23.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 46.3 ms ] threadWhat's there to understand? The CCP is authoritarian and the only way to 'revolutionize' anything is to become more open and free. So in essence, they need to become more like the west.
China usually innovates with technologies that allow them to control their people more effectively: in the 90s it was lethal injection technology, the GFW (Great Firewall), facial-recognition and tracking technology, and now AI (which will also be used to track and control the population).
Let's wait china to announce their own EUV photolitography tool to produce at scale cutting-edge chips... yeah... this is "silghtly" harder than ML...
Arguably Europe is better than America in this regard, since EUCLIDES was bootstrapped with European tech.
No matter what expressive nickname you use, there are natural limitations in vision that cause some well-heeled players to throw away billions before the first Pikachu gasp catches on. That's how they get these nicknames.
No big deal, they can afford it, easy come easy go.
Granted there is more to xenophobia than just demographics, but it should be noted that, in this sample [1], Whites are underrepresented at 18/23 of tech companies, while Asians are overrepresented at 23/23.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250127210140/https://informati...