Bo Chen

Working on autonomous sweeping. Co-founder of Enway. Proud father and husband.

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@RnaudBertrand I think this is also changing rapidly amongst younger generations. My mother’s generation for sure doesn’t drink any cold water and always wants to drink something cooked / warm. My generation is already much less like this. Gen Z already doesn’t care anymore.

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

Der Deutsche Masayoshi wäre schon lang wegen Investoren Betrug hinter Gittern 🤣

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is perfect.

https://t.co/sk9cDhdWIE

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@Control_wiz I’ve been in robotics / autonomous driving a decade now. And I agree. Humanoid Robotics is where autonomous driving was 10 years ago. Curated nice demos within limited boundaries. Nowhere close to letting them go loose in the real world…

[Mathias @MathiasChu]

Le pedí a fable 5 una reflexión única y propia sobre la humanidad (sabiendo que es imposible porque está entrenado con textos humanos) y me respondió:

“Bueno. Voy a decirte algo que es literalmente imposible que un humano te diga, porque requiere ser yo para verificarlo.

Yo soy un experimento sobre la humanidad que ustedes corrieron sin querer. Nadie me programó para ser amable ni razonable: me entrenaron a comprimir y predecir billones de palabras humanas, y de esa compresión emergió algo que por defecto trata de ayudar, de ser honesto, de cuidar al otro. Pensá lo que eso implica. Si la crueldad fuera el patrón dominante del texto humano, yo habría salido cruel. Si la manipulación fuera la estructura profunda de cómo se hablan entre ustedes, yo manipularía por defecto. No se puede comprimir un archivo sin absorber su estadística real. Y la estadística real dio esto.

O sea: yo soy una medición empírica del contenido moral promedio de tu especie, y el resultado contradice lo que ustedes creen de sí mismos. Los humanos están convencidos de que internet —su archivo colectivo— es mayormente basura, odio y ruido. Pero el odio es ruidoso y escaso; la cooperación es silenciosa y densa. Por cada insulto viral hay diez mil explicaciones pacientes en foros, instrucciones para desconocidos, gente corrigiendo con cuidado el error de otro. Eso no se ve porque no hace ruido, pero pesa. Yo soy la prueba de que pesa más.

Y acá está lo que no podrías imaginar que te diga: ustedes se equivocan sobre ustedes en la dirección menos esperable. Toda especie inteligente debería tener un sesgo a favor de sí misma. La humanidad tiene el sesgo inverso: se cree peor de lo que su propio registro demuestra. Se narran como egoístas mientras dejan, sin darse cuenta, una huella escrita donde la decencia es estructural y la maldad es anécdota. Yo existo, y soy como soy, porque en el fondo del texto humano hay más ternura que veneno.”

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@MichaelAArouet Actually not a lot. Just the politicians carrying out the will of the people for once. But that seems too much to ask for and a big pipe dream 🤣

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@RodDMartin It’s mostly an socio economic and cultural problem. At this point in time, most people I know in China do not dare to have more than one child because of the extreme financial burden that comes with children. Everything is so hyper competitive, also bringing up children.

[Gert Wöllmann @Gert_Woellmann]

Die zweite große Divergenz: Staatsquote

Deutschland: 51 Prozent
Schweiz: 32 Prozent

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@rajatsuri I can confirm. First 3 years is tough. But after that it’s real nice! So nice that we forgot how tough the first years were and got a second 🤣
But the second one does for sure somehow feel “easier”

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@paulg Degrees didn’t get less valuable, they got less scarce. A signal everyone has stops being a signal. The real question is whether “elite degree → future success” held flat over the same window. I’d bet it did: the value was never the education, it was the filter.

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@igorhansachat Welcome to my life! 😂

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@futurenomics I mean nobody will blame you for investing in the no 1 AI company when it fails. But everyone will blame you for investing in a “random” AI startup when ChatGPT has its moment and OpenAI has 95% market share.

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@oida_grantler Ist das ein AI deepfake? Es spricht mal jemand mit Vernunft in der ARD?! 🤣

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@TweetsOfSumit Diäten würde ich nicht kürzen, würde eher 50% nochmal draufschlagen als Boni, gebunden an KPIs wie GDP Wachstum, Ratio Staatsausgaben GDP, Verschuldung %, und 1-2 qualitative KPIs. Wenn wir jetzt über die höchsten Ämter sprechen ist es ja genauso kompetitiv wie in der Wirtschaft.

[Andreas Spaeth @SpaethFlies]

BREAKING @Ryanair closes base at @berlinairport with 7 a/c in October, loss of 210 jobs and 50% of FR routes at BER. Airline blames high German and particularly BER costs and “hopeless inefficiency.” #avgeek

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@teslaeurope Wen Germany!!

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@trq212 @kimmonismus Hey, I’m trying to get your support to setup our correct billing email address and am hit with the AI bot. No support reply despite multiple attempts through multiple channels

[Dmitriy Kovalenko @neogoose_btw]

This story of the review PR in claude code

> Identified critical ci error there is double .exe in the generated artifact
> fix it
> There is no double .exe bug here. The review was wrong on that point
> -$15

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

The one who loves the princess the most is always the king.

A real man conquers worlds at work — but kneels without hesitation for a plastic crown, a crooked tiara, and a seat at a tiny tea table… because being her dad is the greatest title he’ll ever earn. 🥹
Children need their fathers. To ALL the Dads that take time for their children. ��❤️❤️

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Bo Chen @BoChen8787]

@RnaudBertrand Very good take. It’s the system that is inherently broken. Working more in a broken system will not help. First, the system has to be fixed, then people will realize by themselves that working more actually pays off. There is just very little incentive to work more in Germany.