Raw LLM Responses

I [wrote a post and comment semi-about this](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1i8htmh/comment/m8uf6o3/) the other day — we had this exact phenomenon happen in r/electricvehicles a couple years back. At first it was denial: There was no way the Chinese were producing electric cars as good as American ones. It was stolen tech. They must be lying. They're low quality. They won't do well in crash tests. No chance! They can barely make *ballpoint pens*! Then it was fear-mongering and sand-throwing: They're spying on you. It's economic warfare. Their batteries are terribly polluting to make. They still run their power plants on coal. They use slavery cobalt. They're cheating through subsidies. Finally, the last step: You're all Chinese shills. This subreddit is overflowing with bots. Uyghur-tiananmen-ooga-booga-lalalalalala-i-cant-hear-you. Now most of those people have floated away. Taken their toys and gone home. Almost everyone acknowledges [the simple fact that China is making some of the best EVs in the world](https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-china-ev-competition-farley-ceo-50ded461) and the US is gatekeeping access to those cars due to vague (albeit somewhat legitimate in theory, sure) security and sovereignty concerns. The current prevailing thinking at r/electricvehicles is similar to yours now: "I'll praise whoever makes and democratizes EVs, and currently, China is doing that. The US has straightforwardly ceded expertise to China, and that's on them." The same thing is on track to happen here. China is pumping out nearly half the world's AI academia and is flooding the open model leaderboards while the US puts walls around GPU exports and keeps its best models locked up. There's no mystery here. Time is is a flat circle.