In reality, Silicon Valley's vision for the future is an actual dystopian hellscape. The US proposes neo-feudalism,

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Ben Norton

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This guy who works at the poorly named OpenAI (or more accurately ClosedAI) laments that China's open-source models could lead to: "full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a 'public good' which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of 'digital public infrastructure'". This outcome would be objectively good for the vast, vast majority of humanity. But of course people who work at OpenAI (ClosedAI) claim it would be "a dystopian hellscape", because they would not have a monopoly on AI and could not become trillionaire techno-feudal lords by forcing everyone to pay them digital rents. In reality, Silicon Valley's vision for the future is an actual dystopian hellscape. The US proposes neo-feudalism, whereas China proposes "full AI communism".

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Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also

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