I’m not convinced by Tyler’s take.

If Claude’s Constitutional AI research is legit, what prevents China to pull a few strings through SAE and nudge the model to be more aligned with China’s political economy ideal? It’s not like the web doesn’t have enough left-leaning training dataset.

Growing up in China (and left 15 years ago), I don’t feel the “Grand Strategy” kind of person tends to survive in the harsh dog-eat-dog hand combat nature of political life in China.

Lastly, there was a popular lie in China around 1840/First Opium War: the British empire eats so much meat that they need our tea. Surely they can’t attack us if they don’t want to get digestive problems.

Could Tyler be drinking too much tea?