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petilon 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Kimi K3 Moment

"China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot." --Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore.

HDBaseT 18 days ago | [–]

This quote feels pretty delusional even at the time (2015), although 11 years later, this quote (view) holds almost no water imo.

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