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Chevalier

Captain
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If you really think about it a lot of it boils down to Zhejiangnese and their intellectual superiority.

Alibaba is based in Hangzhou.

Unitree is based in Hangzhou.

Game Science is based in Hangzhou.

Unitree and its top competitor are based in Hangzhou.

The infamous swarming drones capable of navigating bamboo forest is developed by Zhejiang University.

And finally DeepSeek is from Hangzhou.

If any members of three lettered organization is reading this I suggest reporting to your bosses that not only you should treat your Chinese well, special privileges should be given to ones of Zhejiangnese descent. Personally I’d take my bonuses in precious metal and/or agricultural land since crypto is worthless now but I can’t speak for others.
Forget bribes, I want vengeance, I want the hands and heads of all those who so much as laid a finger on any Chinese person, especially those who abused Chinese elders during the first trump presidency, and then to make the lesson clear, I want the 9 familial executions on all of those who committed crimes against Chinese. Let it be known that if ChatGPT thinks the entire world should be sacrificed for one Jew, then six million Jews equate to one Chinese life.
 

Temstar

Brigadier
Registered Member
So you reckon the quants bros are doing what they do best and shorting Nasdaq?

Woke: use algorithmic trading and make a lot of money on Shanghai Stock Exchange
Bespoke: use your GPUs instead to come up with a revolutionary AI model, give it away under open source and crash US stock market while you short US tech shares
 

ACuriousPLAFan

Brigadier
Registered Member
how many hiroshima we at already?
Okay let's do a quick and dirty back of the napkin calculation. We just want to get the correct order of magnitude.

Let's say we treat the entire city of San Francisco as a single asset and we want to figure out what it's worth:
1. San Francisco's GDP was $263.1 billion in 2023
2. At this time average interest for US government debt is 3.32%

NPV of zero growth perpetuity = cash flow / discount rate

Example: suppose you have an asset that pays $10 a year in interest, and interest rate is 10%. So the value of the asset must be $100 right?

$263.1 billion / 0.0332 =7.9 trillion dollars
So that's how much San Francisco is worth in our super simplified calculation. Currently 3 trillion dollars has been wiped out, so 38% of San Francisco has been nuked.

Hiroshima bomb would do this much damage in San Francisco:
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So I don't know, all that concrete building in San Francisco would stand up to the blast much better than the largely wooden buildings back in Hiroshima, maybe 3 Hiroshima bombs have already been dropped?

DeepSeek's thought on this:

Hundreds of billions in USD is a big range, but that's single digit to double digit number of bombs, so 3 would be on the low end of that.

No, that's way too complicated as an explanation for laymen like us.

The most straightforward answer should be that the US just lost 153 Ford-class CVNs in one day.

You can also say that's about 200-400 billion hamburgers wasted (given that a hamburger costs like 5-10 dollars on average in NYC) in one day.
 
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manqiangrexue

Brigadier
"DeepSeek is a wake up call for America, but it doesn’t change the strategy: - USA must out-innovate &race faster, as we have done in the entire history of AI - Tighten export controls on chips so that we can maintain future leads Every major breakthrough in AI has been American"

This is the stupidest response I've heard to DeepSeek. Innovating faster as a strategy only makes any sense when you're already innovating faster. When you're not, any actual strategy has to address how to innovate faster. You've got 1/4th the population, lower per capita STEM graduates, lazier workers, and now you're pushing your most important demographic in science, the Chinese in America, back to China. So how are you gonna innovate faster? How's a midget who just dropped an anvil on his right foot gonna run faster than Usain Bolt? Just because this midget used to dominate the race? Yeah, but that was when he was racing exclusively against other midgets; now it turns out one of them wasn't a midget but a child. He's 6'3" now and can jog 100m in less then 10 seconds; you're strategy is to still just derp waddle faster than him??
 
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