AKA 郭怡廣. Host of the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. https://teapawt.net/t.co/jPwuckZK4f. Guitarist of Chunqiu. He/him.
Beijing, China
Joined July 2007
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1/ A quick word from me — not a promo, but a personal note.
If you’ve been listening to Sinica or reading the newsletter and found it valuable, I’d be grateful if you’d consider becoming a paid subscriber.
Here’s why 👇
Kaiser Kuo retweeted
Yao, head of Tencent's model, Hunyuan, is saying that two things matter more than the model intelligence:
1. How well it deals with context.
2. How much users trust it to actually use that context.
Totally agree with this. Pretty much, if you're trying to use AI a lot in your life, whether across work or personal, you'll arrive at this conclusion.
This is an excellent essay that lays out clearly the security dilemma that major states have found themselves in, here in this era of chokepoints and Mutually Assured Disruption. Great overview. foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
Kaiser Kuo retweeted
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
Something different on the @SinicaPodcast this week: I carried a recorder around Beijing for a weekend to my usual haunts and chatted with various friends and acquaintances about the city, about change, the economy, and more. 👇
Listen wherever you get your podcasts — Apple, Spotify, all the usual places — or at the @SinicaPodcast newsletter page here: sinicapodcast.com/p/sinica-w…
Sitting in my fave work café in Beijing and a guy walks up to introduce himself, tell me he loved my work with Tang Dynasty and Chunqiu, and gives me his grindcore band's EP. Get a load of the name: Rectal Wench. Alas, no CD player. Will check Spotify & YT.
So when Pete Hegseth wanted a televised public execution, the midterm election probably wasn't what he had in mind.
Don't count Tencent out of the LLM model race in China. With the release of HY4, it's gaining momentum and on the right track. Good to see the emphasis on safety. The native vision is intriguing.
👋Hy4 is here, new with vision.
Firmly among the leading open models.
More productive everywhere: finance, frontend, game, officework, research…
Built responsibly, with cyber/biosecurity in mind.
Try it out and let us know!
🔗：hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4?l…
I so needed this. It goes far toward restoring my flagging faith in procedural democracy. This should last me the two years it needs to.
This guitar store — the BM Guitar Store— in Beijing’s southeastern outskirts is nuts! Some rare and fantastically beautiful instruments.
There's gotta be a ton of jokes in this vein. Give me your best "blue tsunami so massive that..." jokes!
Kaiser Kuo retweeted
16 years ago
carnegieendowment.org/posts/…
@michaelxpettis view, delivered over two chilly hours in his hutong courtyard: China’s best realistic future looks like Japan — a decade-plus of flat growth while it works off history’s biggest debt overhang. And that’s the optimistic case.
Kaiser Kuo retweeted
In a piece for @ForeignAffairs’s website, @ryanl_hass and I argue that President Trump’s mishandling of China policy has paradoxically created political space for a new, more durable strategy to emerge.
foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
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