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> China clearly isn't even close to 4x the productivity of the USA What makes you think innovation/productivity/performance scales linearly with population? C
by kibibu 2y ago
> China clearly isn't even close to 4x the productivity of the USA
What makes you think innovation/productivity/performance scales linearly with population?
China has roughly 500x the population of Jamaica; should they have 500x as many sprinting gold medals?
> has been doing the usual thing Chinese firms focus on of rapidly driving down the cost of tech already proven out by companies elsewhere
R1-Zero is actually new and interesting approach to building reasoning capability, that R1 is built on. Worth reading the paper.
- mike_hearn 2y agoIs R1-Zero more than optimized textbook learning/distillation? I'll check out the paper. I covered the Jamaica disparity by "unless you think there's something fundamentally different about the Chinese". In the case of people from some parts of the world being faster runners there is something different about them genetically, that translates directly into superior athletic performance. Is that the case for Americans vs Chinese? I don't know but haven't seen much evidence of it. The gaps are probably more due to culture and government i.e. artificial and quickly fixable, if they want to.