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U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China (nltimes.nl)
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[–] VirtuePacket@lemmy.zip 20 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Even if I agreed that such export controls were of significant strategic importance, I don't think it's worth applying extreme pressure to our allies to accomplish it. The notion that China can't innovate becomes less true by the year.

The AI build out is an engineering disaster. China will catch up irrespective of what controls we apply to inhibit them. If we can't out-compete them, then we lose.

It would probably be much easier to out-compete them if we weren't actively destroying the greatest network of alliances in human history. We're fucking morons.