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The AI Great Leap Forward

by Han Lee leehanchung.github.io published 2026-04-0510 min read

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

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