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Tl;dr; Governments can regulate semiconductor manufacturing more effectively than AI research. Clamping down on SIMD processors (same instruction, multiple data) can regulate AI, globally, effectively, without too much spillover to other industries. SIMD chips are the enriched uranium of AI Physicists are the famous flag bearers of nuclear weapons, but...

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Tl;dr; Governments can regulate semiconductor manufacturing more effectively than AI research. Clamping down on SIMD processors (same instruction, multiple data) can regulate AI, globally, effectively, without too much spillover to other industries.

SIMD chips are the enriched uranium of AI

Physicists are the famous flag bearers of nuclear weapons, but research was less than 10% of the Manhattan Project’s budget and their importance is greatly overstated. Smart highschool students can do the physics needed to design a basic gun-style nuclear bomb. More advanced designs are difficult on the scale of a startup, not difficult on the scale of a nation-state. The physics of nuclear bombs is not particularly secret, difficult, or expensive to reproduce.

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Bring “Ban faster SIMD semiconductors” into the Overton window

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Bring “Ban faster SIMD semiconductors” into the Overton window

SIMD chips are the enriched uranium of AI