There's a part mentioned in here where Anthropic points out that DeepSeek admits how US export controls hindered China's AI progress to which why they want the US to even more stringent on export controls. That's a weird quirk of the Chinese that annoys me. Why admit it when you're only telling the enemy your weak points for them to take advantage? This goes again with what I've before mentioned where Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said publicly how Western sanctions were hurting his company so they should stop. What was the point? Play victim thinking then they have to then relent because some unknown omnipotent force makes them? Or is being honest with your enemy admitting your weaknesses allays their fears of you? Which points to another thing about Chinese is they're too into ritualistic thinking. They think if they do this or do that then they're suppose to get this. Life doesn't work that way especially from someone who wants to destroy you just for existing spoiling how they think the world works. Now Huawei is making more money than ever before without Westerners as customers. What was the point again? Is this the kumbaya nonsense where you have to think about everyone and admit your own faults to show how human you you are to your enemies? You want to believe in Dr. Jekyll but ignore Mr. Hyde.
I think that when they do it that way, best it shows how immaterial Western sanctions were.
In other words, they just telling their side of the story, as they thought those restrictions was a big deal, then it turns out it was not, and they win.
Seems to me, this is just embellishing the story, but when they come out on top, people tend to embellish it.
That is one point I do not like myself, this is business and not some morality tale. Got to be ruthless in business sometimes, because that is what we need to do it. That is how Huawei and Deepseek did it.
Then someone goes into full Confucian relaxed mode, telling us some morality story like that matter at all. It did not matter.
The shit kicking mattered, the morality tale is irrelevant like those sanctions.
