I don't like the broader situation we're in, but like there's no denying that the chinese open source models are the best check in the moment on power centralization around the US frontier labs. A world where Sam Altman controls everything is like negative infinity expected value.

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The issue, of course, is that the chinese AI companies are open sourcing weights entirely as a strategy in a campaign to establish vectoralist power/positioning for themselves. And state capital is distorting both those weights and the flows outward from them. But definitely the lesser evil for now.

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I've been on the "destroy the US empire via destroying its intellectual property regime" beat for decades. Not a campist in terms of geopolitics and state worship, but I've always been emphatically pro Russian pirates, Shenzhen clone manufacturers, and Chinese open source models.

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What the FUCK is going on in this MegaMan game????

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then I'm going to guess her children beat up Dracula

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