Comment by Junyan Xu (junyan-xu) on Two interviews with the founder of DeepSeek · 2025-01-23T22:40:22.653Z · LW · GW

French New Wave director Truffaut's advice to young filmmakers when announcing its large model: “Be insanely ambitious, and insanely sincere.” [I cannot confirm the quote. The Chinese translation is “务必要疯狂地怀抱雄心，且还要疯狂地真诚。”]

I tracked down the reference using DeepSeek-r1 with web search: the original quote is "Il faut être follement ambitieux et follement sincère pour que l’enthousiasme des prises de vues se communique à la projection et qu’il gagne le public." Conversation and reasoning trace shared: https://gist.github.com/alreadydone/65cd080247ef0b5a9356e2a2b97b5d95 I first found this douban page https://www.douban.com/note/793160709/ with the exact Chinese quote, which probably helped.