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Why couldn't this be viewed from the capitalistic lens of good old fashioned competition? No cynicism is required in viewing the export restrictions on ASML's lithography technology and nVidia's most advanced chips as blantantly anti-competitive.

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Because empires don't want competition they want hegemony.

A lot of sour grapes on here, and the attendant cognitive dissonance. Communism and open-source development have overlapping ideals, and there's no better project for worldwide cooperation than AI. But that's at odds of the US having monopolistic control over the SOTA. Ultimately capitalism horseshoes into the authoritarianism, gross inequality, and poverty of the Soviet states it likes to contrast itself to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

"and there's no better project for worldwide cooperation than AI"

What happened to fighting climate change?

Sure, that too

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