Maia on The Great Simplification

Great discussion! But I was surprised neither of you addressed the very different approach to AI development in China. It’s like you were looking through a Western (narrow-boundary 😉) lens. Kevin Walmsley’s take on DeepSeek back in January would be a good complement to this interview. It suggests, to me at least, that wise can still beat clever. https://youtu.be/yEkAdyoZnj0?si=YSOSmMw8k8ImWKZA I watched this video 5 mo ago and again today, and I had the same thought both times: AI in the US vs. China is like a case study in Multilevel Selection Theory! The former is so focused on within-group selection (e.g., Silicon Valley AI firms offering $100M comp packages) that it’s losing the between-group contest to a more internally cooperative group (i.e., China’s open-source approach).