The faithful transcript of my first conversation with Deepseek. Looking at where we are right now (April 2025), I'm not really sure that I should be more wary of Chinese than of US AI. So I went and dipped my toe. I didn't give away too many personal secrets, other than the fact that I'm an OBVIOUS NERD. If you are not, you won't enjoy this post, in which I discuss the works of Liu Cixin and classic Doctor Who. If you are an OBVIOUS NERD, you might be interested.