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Counterpoint - “look at how effective AI is, it’s made everyone realise their career is for nothing!”

Timeless tactic!

"The Power Mac G4 is so fast that it is classified as a supercomputer by the US government, and we are prohibited from exporting it to over 50 nations worldwide," Jobs said the Apple Expo, CNN reported in September 1999. (edit: added link)

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-steve-jobs-us-export-c...

I remember that. It was export banned, wasn't it? A gigaflop being enough for a cruise missile visual guidance or something like that?

I remember those days. Lots of software was also export restricted, but the Internet being what it is, I doubt those restrictions mattered much to folks who wanted effective encryption, who would likely just say they were in the US.

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