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@afrazhaowang
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writer & podcaster; i write newsletter Concurrent; i care about eth, silicon valley, china. prev @newsbreakapp @smartnews; fellow @rootsofprogress
Palo Alto, USA
Joined April 2014
new piece from my newsletter Concurrent, link in reply. For years, Chinese tech leaders were instrumentalists while Silicon Valley played prophet. That might just changed. @AlibabaGroup's CEO Eddie Wu delivered China's first serious ASI evangelism—three-stage roadmaps and
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Aztec - it’s like if Ethereum and Zcash had a really f’ing smart baby (no speculation on who the parents are, plz)
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The Room Where AI Happens. A great and insightful article by @afrazhaowang about the insights, dissonances and blind-spots among leading AI thinkers + why mutually incompatible views are contesting each other to be the canonical lens through which people view AI Link in thread
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I love SF but hated Stanford. deeply incurious, entitled, conformist place 1) Nobody leaves campus. Caltrained to SF once every 1-2 mos, which was unusual + hard to get ppl to join. Kids are totally disconnected from / uninterested in the real world. 2) Stanford ships
There are just a lot of deep tech companies I know now that refuse to hire kids coming out of Stanford
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Chinese researcher Shunyu Yao left Anthropic to join DeepMind. “~40% of the reason: I strongly disagree with the anti-china statements Anthropic has made.” Dario’s first experience with AI was at Baidu. He learned about scaling laws there. Strange that he made those wild public
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I chatted with @LiYuan6 about the rise of “china curious” and “China envy” in Silicon Valley. The podcast is in Chinese language!
自从DeepSeek横空出世，美国硅谷充满了各种中国厉害论，硅谷的初创公司甚至开始拥抱996工作制。硅谷的“中国焦虑”揭示了什么？当硅谷的科技精英们说羡慕中国，TA们羡慕的是什么？硅谷对中国科技发展态度的转变说明了什么？为什么美国精英们感到失落？ https://t.co/F205KFrIwm
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Great set of recommended readings on China / East Asia development policies
3) The second book is Lu Feng's 光变 (2016). @kyleichan and @hsu_steve recently discussed Lu on Manifold (Ep94). This book cemented his reputation as one of China's leading industrial policy scholars.
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The High Line in NYC might be the best public project built in America over the last 20 years
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Attention all movie lovers 🎬 A brand new visual podcast is coming soon featuring those who worked with Kubrick, those who have been influenced by the master and those who are following in his iconic footsteps. Join us as we sit down with these industry giants and revel in
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Yes, because technology is ultimately people and teams. The U.S. should hold on to talent rather than drive engineers out through immigration raids
correct me if im wrong but it seems like: - the theme of the @danwwang book, and the general elite consensus now is that “industrial process” is a technology that lives in the heads of people and that it was a mistake to let so much “low value” industry be offshored due to the
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confirms that 996 in silicon valley and china is leaning toward performativity rather than yield
Well said
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China's leaders read Dan Wang, confirmed
Fascinating to see Chinese propaganda latch onto the “China is run by engineers, America is run by lawyers” frame.
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Must-read piece from @Noahpinion: “In this situation, we don’t need to tear our hair out asking which industries the government should promote; as in the era of the railroads, the answer is bleedingly obvious. A core set of 'winners' has already been picked for us — it’s just
Critics of industrial policy often claim that it's difficult to pick winners. But military necessity often picks winners for us. In the age of the drone, that has happened once again. We know what we need to build. https://t.co/PuipvTExho
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