From pencils to ASI: China's cheap-replica model may scale to superintelligence
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-12
The author muses that China's model of making money selling cheaper replicas of American goods to the rest of the world ("not necessarily a bad thing, I love cheap goods too") will probably scale from pencils all the way to artificial superintelligence — a pointed one-liner on the US-China AI race.
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