Surely someone in the chain from "event in China" to "Western press" knows Chinese or learns from someone who does. The press in general warps information toward their ends (readership, influence); I think the issue is info source curation & not specific to China or language.
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Not knowing Chinese exacerbates the problem because we can't go check primary sources as easily. Bad (Western) science journalism isn't a huge infohazard to me because I can just click through to the original paper.
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@peterthiel claimed China both overstates and understates its tech progress, to promote either complacency or despair in its competitors (which both have the same effect).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Indeed! Reading this article allowed me to adopt a less dramatic view of my "predictions" of what the future of AI research will look like, as a western student. Earlier in the year I arrived at the idea that a new cold war between China and the western world will occur .../
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/... in the field of AI from the facts that China recently adopted a new offensive strategy in the military ground and that AI will be a necessary pivot to be a powerful power in decades to come. Bur I underestimated the influence of global corporations and am lacking .../
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