*Scott Alexander thinks the answer is "no", he says says this : *
*"**China is a very practical country. The Chinese don’t really believe in recursive self-improvement or superintelligence. If they did, they wouldn’t be so blasé about the possibility of America having AIs 1-2 years more advanced than theirs - if our models pass the superintelligence threshold while theirs are still approaching it, then their advantage in humanoids and drones no longer seems so impressive."* *And after I've read the following article I'm beginning to think he might be right, the US certainly has a huge advantage over China in the amount of computing power it has available: * *Is China Racing to AGI?* <https://www.chinatalk.media/p/is-china-agi-pilled?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* ec. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3AQCwTsr24CPQ67w8_SL3rqk9DrBtkKW9gYMb6GwHk%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com.

