It's rather obvious Zvi is biased if you consider the totality of his work on China (since Covid to the current AI boom), not only because of his statement of facts or his policy positions but rather his writing style, which betrays his view the Chinese are somehow not only technologically but morally inferior. And he expresses them with an emotional valence similar to his treatment of Trump.

They call themselves rationalists but they don't apply their own theories, they think permanent authoritarianism is as bad as human extinction. It's a predictable offshoot from their own west coast US ideological origins.

And Sonnet 5.5 is more expensive than Opus 5.5 to hit that score on terminal bench!

Uploaded my code base and it forced switched to Opus 4.8 after thinking for 5 minutes even though I prompted it to not work on cybersecurity related things. Amazing.

Aren’t LLMs notoriously bad at recognizing negation?

EDIT: In long context I mean

news from 2025

“Large frontier developer”: a frontier developer that together with its affiliates collectively had annual gross revenues in excess of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) in the preceding calendar year.

So any large company training LLMs, no matter the capability, is considered a frontier developer?

Except that does make sense because the new country would be the weighted average of the average CO2 contribution for both Americans and Nigerians.

Clearly, that means annexing Nigeria is the best way for US to reduce its GHG emissions.

Just add poor people to your country! Per capita emission metrics HATE this one weird trick!

Jeez the extent some people will go to not install solar.

I'm fine with that. So go ahead, annex Nigeria, you coward.

Amazing analysis, except for the fact China was dirt poor before communism.

That's essentially a blip in time for China's 5000 year history. They quite literally invented paper, printing, gunpowder, etc.

It's not like their society randomly collapsed by itself, either, they had plenty of help with the opium wars...

Sure but China was historically wealthy and advanced well before communism and century of humiliation.

No way. I read Noah Smith (number 1 economist on substack) every week and he says one must measure China in per capita terms for all the good stuff: GDP (preferably nominal), and in aggregate terms for all the bad stuff (pollution, carbon dioxide emissions).

Also, it's logically impossible for China to be good. I have found a mathematical proof:

1: Democracy is good

2: China is not a democracy

Therefore, obviously China is not good.

You did a logical fallacy which is called “denying the antecedent.” From your first two propositions, it doesn’t follow that anything that isn’t a democracy isn’t good.

But how are you gonna foresee the total annihilation of the Chinese semi industry without Jordan the necromancer interpreting party documents for you?

TBH Jordan paid his dues in PRC, did great interviews with interesting people. But TFW he is still... literally brain injury / damaged and now in Washington and seems to be doing more policy/analysis work.