in my testing, deepseek crushes western models on ancient chinese philosophy and literature, while also having a much stronger command of english than my first-hand chinese sources. it feels like communing with literary/historical/philosophical knowledge across generations that i never had access to before. it's quite emotionally moving. it makes sense too, western labs dont care about training on chinese data (but chinese labs train on both). remember that china has several thousand years more of literary history than the west does (because we lost the majority of our roman/greek/egyptian literature and china preserved theirs). basically; our AI models are missing the literary foundations of western thought, but the chinese models have theirs intact. this could be both a classical "data advantage" and a less-obvious advantage for spiritual and philosophical self-actualization.
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