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I also want to add the book is currently has 20 ratings on Amazon and 4.9 stars - I'm curious if a large flood of of negative reviews quickly get posted haha, s
by yuy910616 5y ago
I also want to add the book is currently has 20 ratings on Amazon and 4.9 stars - I'm curious if a large flood of of negative reviews quickly get posted haha, since it is now on both the Economist and Hackernews, which I think China closely monitors.
- stanislavb 5y agoI won’t be surprised at all to see a number of suspicious negative reviews.
- danrocks 5y agoI live in Hong Kong. Many media outlets are closed monitored and relentlessly attacked with fake comments by the state apparatchiks. It's easy to spot, given: 1) Pervasive use of whataboutism; 2) Similar arguments in all comments, with a change or two in order or synonymous; 3) Use of Mandarin idioms translated to English, like "double confirm"; 4) Use of Mandarin sentence order translated to English, like "The USA last year in February in Afghanistan did ...". It's become a bit of game for me. I wish I enough knowledge of NLP to make this into a model and open source it as a wumao detector.
- divbzero 5y agoMonitoring the Economist makes sense, but I’d be surprised if Hacker News is closely monitored as well.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoI'm not so sure. He is very likely to be aware of HN: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xi-jinpings-bookshelf-offers-a-glimpse-into-chinas-goal-of-becoming-ai-powerhouse https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xi-jinpings-book...
- divbzero 5y agoI suspect the Economist has far broader readership and influence than HN, but I like the idea of him browsing these threads like the rest of us. (President Xi, if you’re reading I’d love to see a comment from you as a “long-time lurker”. Or, even better, wow us by announcing an AI advancement here with a “Show HN” post.)