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"Please Give Them a Chance: On China, Rationalism, and AI Safety" by gzjw
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- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
When I finished HPMOR, I immediately knew it was the best novel I had read in more than a decade. I only wished I had found it sooner. When I started reading The Sequences, I discovered that the Chinese translation group had translated only the first volume. When I graduated from university, two years ago, AI translation had only just become good enough to convey the meaning of an article with reasonable accuracy. It was only about a year and a half ago that I truly found my way here ...