Melissa Chen

VP @strategyrisks | Board + co-founder @IdeasB2 | Board @envprogress | 🇸🇬 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 | ✍️ The Spectator & elsewhere | Email: [email protected]

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

One day, I hope @MrWinMarshall will no longer be defined by or asked about his cancelation from his band;

and that the experience of leaving something he loved so much in order to be free, would be the least interesting thing about him.

Until that day.. 👇

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Welcome to The Winston Marshall Show

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@Glinner

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@Undoomed “Hello 911? I’d like to report a murder”

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

In the spirit of “doing things because they are hard”

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We have launched a new weekly show which goes out tonight. We discussed the Jason Arday affair, the British Government's don't rape leaflets, the Candace Owens vs. Andrew Wilson debate, race realism and more.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@1stFreeMatt "The way we win matters"

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Did you guys read Ender's Game?

Because this is right out of Ender’s Game, except the kids in Battle School are Chinese state researchers, the “simulations” are real influence ops, and the Formics (aliens) are.... us.

In Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender Wiggin spends years inside elaborate digital simulated arenas, commanding fleets, testing strategies, iterating tactics against an enemy he never truly meets - essentially playing video games and being tested against other players. Every variable is controlled, every response measured, every weakness probed until victory is inevitable. There's a twist at the end which I won't ruin for those who haven't read it.

This is what the Chinese are doing now to the West. They scraped 171 million open X posts, inferred age, race, ideology, party, gender resentment, election skepticism - modeling the whole American psyche essentially - and spun up a million-agent digital twin of the US electorate. They can dial up synthetic Pennsylvania voters, feed them a tax-and-redistribution message, watch the reaction in multi-round conversations, refine it, and measure swing-state impact with claimed 47-of-51 accuracy.

They model Trump’s “dependable right-wing base.” They map MAGA content and influencer networks. Their own documents call it “cognitive-domain confrontation and guidance.”

Parts of the system are already being used by the PLA and intelligence units.

Guys, are you paying attention yet? They are playing Sims with the American population!!!

LOL WE are the NPCs.

This is completely an asymmetrical war as we have no reciprocal capability whatsoever. China is a black box thanks to The Great Firewall and total data sovereignty. We cannot access a corpus of ordinary Chinese citizens for any American lab to scrape.

We cannot build a million-agent model of the Chinese public. We cannot test messages on synthetic Shanghainese factory workers or Chengdu nationalists. We cannot A/B test narratives about Taiwan, the economy, or Party legitimacy and watch the simulated reaction in real time. We do not even know what the average Chinese person thinks because they've been cut off from our information platforms.

We live in a glass house while they live in a fortress. Every American rant, every demographic signal, every cultural fracture is harvested, modeled, and weaponized.

Meanwhile, their population remains opaque, unmodeled, and unreachable. Beijing now possesses a live, continuously updated war-game of the American mind. We possess nothing comparable about theirs.

A whole new level of Unrestricted Warfare has been unlocked. We are really not ready for this

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Institutions Are Building AI Models Of American Voters—And Testing Political Messages On Them.

Fudan used 171 MILLION X posts to create a million-account “voter pool.” A government-linked team tested a campaign message on synthetic Pennsylvania voters. 🧵

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@JackPosobiec Surprisingly, the movie did it justice

(Unlike Apple's Foundation which completely butchered Asimov's novel)

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@gregsgroove @SteveStuWill Every dude here making the same dad joke 😂

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

People laughing at the Chinese robots crashing after the 100m race or asking what's the point of developing humanoid robots even are missing the bigger picture.

Remember when JFK said:

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

<<BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD>>

Human locomotion, let alone a full blown sprint, is mechanically very hard. A two legged robot that has to balance on one foot repeatedly, predict where its center of mass is moving, absorb impact, coordinate many joints and correct errors within milliseconds, is solving problems at the absolute edge of physics, control theory, and real-time intelligence.

When you iterate and solve these problems, regardless of how impractical it seems, you go a long way to advancing a frontier of what machines can be in the physical world, of knowledge than can open up far more applications you don't even know exist yet.

That's what the goal of putting a man on the moon did for NASA and the USA.

This is a Sputnik moment and we are still laughing and dunking on crashing robots and canceling data centers over climate concerns, the very infrastructure required to train the models and run the simulations that would close the gap.

Shaun called the gap existential because it is. Nations that treat hard problems as serious problems shape the future. Nations that stand by and watch do not.

We used to know this.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

America is incredibly far behind in robotics

This is existential

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@boom_dart @aziz0nomics I once skied straight into a giant wall of snow and left a cartoonish hole, as if Wile E. Coyote had slammed into it with his hands all splayed out.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@freealbertah @aziz0nomics

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@anexiledjew @aziz0nomics Yes there's a Potemkin village aspect to these demonstrates, I have to admit

But given what is at stake, I much rather be guilty of a Type II error than a Type 1 error here

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@vtchakarova Was this from our report about Missouri State University?

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The 25-page report can be downloaded here.

Title: Heartland for Hire

Missouri State University Spent Two Decades Training China’s Defense Executives with American Taxpayer Money

https://t.co/XpxNxjJtsk

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@DrewPavlou She needs to marry this guy

[𝘗𝘙𝘐𝘔𝘈 @nocertainlynot]

Ladies you need to cuff up men like this

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@dadmatters_uk @SteveStuWill

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@timoteoflynn @SteveStuWill

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@adityaanupkumar Hmmm

You might be on to something...

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Does anyone have a theory as to why Britain produced so few native-born composers during the Romantic era?

After Henry Purcell’s death in 1695, a long silence settled over English composition, broken only in the late nineteenth century by the emergence of Elgar.

For me, the Romantic age, from the fall of the Bastille to the early 1900s, gave us the most luminous music ever written. What makes Britain’s quietude so striking is the abundance elsewhere - France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Austria, Poland, and even smaller nations like Czech and Finland all brought forth renowned Romantics.

Meanwhile the British Empire stood at its zenith, unrivalled upon the seas, flourishing in the sciences, and blessed with great Romantic writers.

Yet in music… almost nothing. Why?