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THE DURBINATOR FOR THE WIN

[alozer @alizehkizilbash]

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[Nate @nate_hague]

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RED. SOX. WIN.

14 STRAIGHT!

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WE GOT A SERIES 🍿

Wemby and the Spurs win the first Finals game at MSG in 27 years to get on the board 👽

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Aaron Judge when he’s faced with the slightest amount of pressure

[alozer @alizehkizilbash]

at least it was abreu … 😞

[Jerry Díaz 🇨🇺 @Jerryto94]

Wilyer Abreu 🇻🇪 es otro candidato a MVP del World Baseball Classic.

Tremendo HR por el medio en Miami.

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WBC Home Run Leaders

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ALL ANGLES: Wilyer Abreu turns the #WorldBaseballClassic atmosphere to the max 🤯

[Steve Perrault @Steve_Perrault]

Roman Anthony drives in Aaron Judge. What a sentence.

[Steve Perrault @Steve_Perrault]

The tears of a nation over the Patriots being back in the Super Bowl is such a beautiful thing.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

Man there's no way I read that right! Right? Ain't no WAY Bill Belichick ain't 1st Ballot HOF!! That's IMPOSSIBLE, EGREGIOUS, and quite frankly DISRESPECTFUL!

[alozer @alizehkizilbash]

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[alozer @alizehkizilbash]

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

That's actually a fantastic illustration why Western media's bias on China actually hurts the West more than it does China.

Deepseek is only "startling" if you based your understanding on China off reporting by the likes of The Economist, who keep picturing a China as a cartoonish version of itself: a monolithic villain always on the edge of collapsing, plagued by intractable problems that put it at a significant disadvantage versus an exceptional U.S.

I'm not even exaggerating. Just last quarter the Economist was running an article on how China was "making some of the mistakes the Soviet Union did" (https://t.co/yBIcf7qPQp), unironically (and with a stunning lack of self-awareness) writing that "bad information is a grave threat to China’s economy". Meanwhile, almost simultaneously, they published a special report on "the American economy, the envy of the world" (https://t.co/trUUt1ek7M). As a reminder, in 2024 China's economy grew by 5% to the US's 2.8%...

If you had an accurate understanding of what was actually going on in the country, you'd know that China wasn't actually "far behind" at all in AI as The Economist writes. In fact at the same time as they were writing that China was going the way of the Soviet Union I was pointing out that China was already leading the U.S. in 6 out of 7 AI fields (https://t.co/ofxNBfs0J3). The only field they weren't leading in (they were a close second) was Natural Language Processing, i.e. LLMs like ChatGPT. And, low and behold, Deepseek shows that they've now caught up in this field too.

I also wrote at the beginning of last year that when you look at top-tier AI talent worldwide (the very best AI developers and researchers), an astounding 47% of them were Chinese, vs 18% American (https://t.co/CkA1m5RROv). It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you have half the world's best AI talent, you ought to be insanely good in the field...

You could also have looked at patents and noticed that, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), since 2017 China has published more patents in the field of generative AI each year than all other countries combined (https://t.co/GC69kSvebt). Or you could have looked at high-impact research, meaning the most cited research articles, and noticed that already in 2019 China has reached parity with the U.S. in share of the the world’s top-5-percent AI publications (https://t.co/zjGd0lKzTT).

This all shows that you can only be "startled" and you could only have thought that China was "so far behind" in AI if you really weren't paying attention. Or if you had such delusional biases that you were completely blind to the realities of the world we actually live in.

And, to go back to my original point, it's not China that gets hurt by this blindness. If you don't understand your rival and see them as a grossly misleading caricature, you hurt yourself. When you reduce China to a cartoon villain you miss the actual story and get blindsided as is obvious with the Deepseek episode.

I'd argue that very much the same mechanism is at play with U.S. policy, for instance with the export controls on chips that aimed at "slowing China down". Anyone who doesn't look at the world through the prism of hubristic American exceptionalism could have predicted that far from slowing them down, it would supercharge their efforts to develop a domestic chip industry and become self-reliant in this regard.

Which makes complete sense, that's exactly what any pragmatic decision-maker would do in China's shoes. The problem is that this cartoonish vision of China prevents any strategic empathy, resulting in completely missing predictions that should be very easy to make.

The lesson? Arrogance is a luxury the West can no longer afford. China’s progress isn’t “startling”—it’s predictable. The only thing truly startling is how willingly the West blinds itself to reality. To use the Economist's own quote, "bad information" is a much graver threat to us than it is to China: we need to start understanding the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. Otherwise we'll keep finding ourselves in the Economist's ironical position, "startled" because it believed its own propaganda.

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[Dr. Buzz Aldrin @TheRealBuzz]

July 20, 1969 is a date that represents a pinnacle of human achievement - the #Apollo11 Moon landing. And while it was certainly special, it was only part of a long and challenging effort that involved thousands of people working hard and doing their part, resulting in the subsequent Apollo missions taking Americans to the Moon and returning them safely to Earth. It truly was America at its best.

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

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