| > Nowhere near the value of having access to chips, at any cost. T Disagree. Anything produced in the Eu or other US satellites is priced as high as possible. One could say that allowing China to buy those chips would have been a bigger drain on the Chinese AI budget. > You think without export restrictions China wouldn't be doing the exact same thing? I dont think it. China did not do it and stuck by the WTO rules after going through so many hoops to get in. Then the US decided that China was too competitive and started ignoring WTO rules. > You are right that this greases the wheels, they are further along than they would have been without export restrictions, but they are still delayed even with the reduced friction Disagree. Restrictions might have hampered them somewhat at the start, but setting up their own infrastructure as fast as China does and scaling it up as big and as fast as China does would eliminate any delay in a flash. > I think this is too cynical. Neither one of us is in the room to actually observe the real decision making, but export restrictions as a strategy are not some "dumbf-ck aristocratic elite" thing. They are perfectly rational from a strategic standpoint and arguably doing what they're supposed to do. Nope. The narcissism and aristocracy of the US elite is well documented all the way since the 60s since the biggest ongoing social study on the matter (from UCSC) literally mapped it: https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/class_domination.html Below is a more street-speak version of all of this if you wouldn't prefer to read the full study above: https://makesenseworld.substack.com/p/narcissists-are-destro... |