Epistemic status: personal experience plus anecdotes from a few people, skewing toward the older generation. Corrections welcome.
alkjash suggested I write up the Discord discussion we had about this post. What follows pulls together views from myself (grew up in China and went abroad for university at 18), my partner (35 years in China, the last 5 in Sydney), my dad (60s, very local and very loyal Chinese citizen), and a friend (Alexis, who may yet make his own LW account).
The post is largely right about ordinary people and the Chinese internet. Our main a... (read more)
Hey alkjash - a few friends and I are thinking about translating it into Chinese. Since it seems like you might speak Chinese yourself, I just wanted to check: is there already a Chinese version out there? If not, would you be cool with us translating it?
Epistemic status: personal experience plus anecdotes from a few people, skewing toward the older generation. Corrections welcome.
alkjash suggested I write up the Discord discussion we had about this post. What follows pulls together views from myself (grew up in China and went abroad for university at 18), my partner (35 years in China, the last 5 in Sydney), my dad (60s, very local and very loyal Chinese citizen), and a friend (Alexis, who may yet make his own LW account).
The post is largely right about ordinary people and the Chinese internet. Our main a... (read more)