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naturalmovement 4 hours ago

80% of the irrationally angry comments here have zero clue how export controls work and is giving me serious Dunning Kruger vibes.

Please go read US history before sounding off on this topic. These laws have existed for decades.

gensym 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just because a policy is legal doesn't mean it cannot be disastrous.

andsoitis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"disastrous" seems hyperbolic to me.

what disaster do you foresee?

gensym 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Favored companies get access to frontier models, which gives them a competitive advantage, starving out smaller companies. Any smaller companies that do manage to innovate ultimately get acquired by the favored companies since they are worth more with access to frontier models than without (which is effectively a discount on the purchase price of those companies).

I'm not saying that's going to happen, but it is one possible scenario that, over time, would be disastrous for innovation and freedom.

nickthegreek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Foreseeable corruption by the state. A further slip into cronyism. A large puzzle piece that when simply connected with the recent actions like demanding shares in companies, removing funding for energy projects not aligned with other lobbies, pardoning of white collar criminals. It seems pretty plain and obvious the type of disasters that await.

Capricorn2481 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not being facetious, can you direct us to which laws are in play here? Specifically, why different models can be classified as different exports that need separate approvals?

naturalmovement an hour ago | parent [-]

Section 5 Part 2 (Information Security) of the EAR Commerce Control List likely applies.

IANAL; you need to be one to interpret this stuff. These laws are as thick as a dictionary.

The EAR dates back to the Export Administration Act of 1979 but it was mostly overhauled by Congress in 2018.