I’m not convinced by Tyler’s take.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>Could Tyler be drinking too much tea?