OK Then

@okaythenfuture · Twitter · 2026-09-09 12:08 UTC

I think it’s due to 3 core reasons, 1. The Chinese political leadership sees AI as a process, one that will generally diffuse to actual industrial machinery and robotics, and less as an EVENT. Americans have imbued the general AI revolution with now religious overtones(the singularity), and recursive ASI as one massive day of reckoning that changes everything. So it’s also a broader metaphysical difference between east and west. 2. The Compute and Hardware gap, China wants to completely master advanced chips, lithography, and domestic semiconductor tooling before spacing out about models and their total capabilities, and I think they plan to stay on this path as they believe this is where sovereignty actually lies, let it also not be forgotten that via rare earth and certain tooling exports that they could also suffocate the American buildout, so China has literal Trump cards it can still present to Trump lmao. 3. It’s just not CPC culture to literally freak the fuck out about technology or geopolitical competition to the public at large. This is a political difference. Some will disagree with me, but I am tempted to believe the CPC once again is playing this game entirely right, and when there is a likely massive Capex bubble burst in a year to two in the West, they will look very prescient.