Roon: We should obviously not let China use our best chips or even N-1 chips, I mean it’s just insane.

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Roon (@tszzl), a lab researcher, argues the US should not let China access even N-1 generation AI chips, calling compute "essentially a military dual use technology" and likening export arguments to selling nuclear enrichment facilities to prevent domestic development. The comparison drew early pushback and support in replies.

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1. @tszzl lab · Wed 00:50 UTC
   we should obviously not let China use our best chips or even N-1 chips, I mean it’s just insane. this is essentially a military dual use technology. imagine if we were selling nuclear enrichment facilities and arguing that it would prevent them from making their own domestically
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