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The cool thing about Chinese is that they can be infinitely pragmatic and cynical, but they do have a pretty strong notion of virtue, and it activates under a sufficient stimulus. Steve was a Bloomberg Index quant! He reads Liang and thinks: ah yeah, so that's what is called 君子
This long-form Liang Wenfeng investor interview may be one of the most important non-technical visionary AI readings you’ll do. I’ve seen some other good ones from US founders working on open models. Liang spells out a coherent and confident vision for open (weights) AI and exhibits a high level of moral virtue and ethical innocence in a refreshingly distinct way we haven’t observed from US AI leaders in a long time. I think virtue is too little discussed in today’s commercial world. The baseline is everyone’s fully cynical so you should act accordingly. Except that’s not what we were taught as kids. Virtue is in fact good and should be admired, praised and rewarded even if with social recognition.
This long-form Liang Wenfeng investor interview may be one of the most important non-technical visionary AI readings you’ll do. I’ve seen some other good ones from US founders working on open models. Liang spells out a coherent and confident vision for open (weights) AI and exhibits a high level of moral virtue and ethical innocence in a refreshingly distinct way we haven’t observed from US AI leaders in a long time. I think virtue is too little discussed in today’s commercial world. The baseline is everyone’s fully cynical so you should act accordingly. Except that’s not what we were taught as kids. Virtue is in fact good and should be admired, praised and rewarded even if with social recognition.