Don't waste attention on AI slowdown talk, via a Chinese exam analogy
bingxu_ · x · 2026-09-13
The author argues against spending attention on "slow down AI" discourse, offering an analogy from Chinese high schools: ask top students before brutal quarterly ranking exams what they did over the weekend, and they all claim they played games all night — implying real competitors sprint while slowdown talk accomplishes nothing.
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