I think that AI will help both civilizations a lot. The case for automating grindset/normal science work is obvious. But Kuhnian paradigmatic shifts don't really require some harder cognition. Asian problem is one of intellectual courage. LLMs can know no fear in wordceling.
David Sun
David Sun6 hours ago
AI is where East Asians outperform- yet ironically AI will obsolete the classic advantages of Easia education- rote memorization/grindcel/linear innovation/normal science I haven’t heard of any clear plans for how EAsia plans to deal with this. Lean into hardware & AI tax UBI?
The problem is that more usemaxxed LLMs are biased towards median, safe answers. They're very wasian indeed. You need to raise the temperature to get them to speculate, without reducing it to low-epiplexity gibberish. Then, humans can pursue promising avenues. who building dis?
2.69K