Larry Salibra

Rudd on Xi...more Western naval-gazing

I listened to Ezra Klein's interview with former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd about Xi Jinping. Rudd speaks Chinese. He served in the Australian foreign service where he met Xi earlier in his career while he was in Xiamen. Rudd later went on to do a PhD at

The big bad Chinese subsidies

This is in reply to a thread on X where Matt Stoller claims that 100% of China's success is due to state subsidies. The "China subsidized its way to success" is really just a cope shibboleth that some Americans repeat without thinking to signal group unity

Apple is winning the AI race

I don't think people realize how easy it is to make use of on-device AI models in an app on most of Apple's devices shipped in the past two years. And I'm talking about the currently shipping 26 versions of iOS and macOS.

QR code menu enabled phone addiction

Phone addiction in mainland China seems to be much higher than the already ridiculous levels it is in other places in the world. It’s very common in restaurants and coffee shops for tables of people to be ignoring each other and their kids bent over their phones. I suspect

Bryan Johnson blood tests in a Chinese public hospital

I wanted to get some Bryan Johnson-inspired blood tests for a baseline of biomarkers. He sells an expensive testing service that, as far as I know, isn’t available outside of the USA. And getting blood tests in Hong Kong means going to an expensive private lab or expensive

What to make? A sandwich?

AI makes it really easy to build things until you realize you don't know what to build. You may think you know what you want to build until you start to build it, only to find out that not only have you not defined some of the requirements