In theory North Korea should be winning bigly under your assertion. They can read all the US scientific papers but keep their own genius to themselves.
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Open vs Closed Source Models Economic Cultural Implications
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Yeah that's a common claim amongst leaders that try closing their economies. But you end up with sucky people and a sucky culture and it never works out well. Closed source models vs open source models is a very different question to closed economies vs open economies.
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Big Tech Power Concentration Threatens US Talent Attraction
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Having such power concentration in big tech companies would also create use social problems, which would further detract from US capability, including reducing their ability to attract the best talent.
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China US AI Competition and Scientific Participation Impact
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Greatly accelerate relative progress of China vs US. They would be able to fully participate in the global scientific community, whereas US would be hamstrung. Pre-meiji Japan thought that they would be best staying closed. It doesn't work great in practice.
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FastHTML Framework: 250,000 Lines of Code Alternative
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Similar goals, but very different approach. FastHTML is 250,000.
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Dog Whistling in Tech: The Case for Direct Honest Communication
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I think when people dog whistle to insiders like this it's critical to be direct and honest about what's being communicated.
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Controversial AI Infrastructure Proposals and Regulatory Boundaries
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This seems disingenuous to me. Isn't the whole point of this post meant to be that we all know exactly what's he's talking about? He's proposed in Time magazine bombing data centers, so that's within the Overton window. What possibly do you imagine he's talking about then?
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Nuclear War Versus AI Doom: Existential Risk Debate
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But isn't that exactly what he's saying? If not, what thing outside the overton window do you think he's talking about? He's said lots of times that nuclear war is better than AI doom.
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US Tech Dominance and Open Source Rise: A Parallel Evolution
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The period during which US tech became most dominant is the period during which open source became dominant. These things are obviously not inconsistent.
