Re:AI Company Plans to Run Clusters of 10k Nvidia H100 GPUs ...
by dragonwriter on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:54PM
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> Each BSFCC will fulfill the criteria set by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Montevideo Convention to qualify as nation states
Neither UNCLOS nor the Montevideo Convention sets “criteria... to qualify as a nation-state”.
The Montevideo Convention in Article I lists some desirable features of states as persons under international law (the sense in which “nation-state” is clearly intended here), but does not set them out as either necessary or sufficient qualifications. You can have all of them and not be a nation-state, and you can be a nation-state and lack one or more of them.
So this claim about criteria for being a nation-state and everything resting on it is complete bunk.
Neither UNCLOS nor the Montevideo Convention sets “criteria... to qualify as a nation-state”.
The Montevideo Convention in Article I lists some desirable features of states as persons under international law (the sense in which “nation-state” is clearly intended here), but does not set them out as either necessary or sufficient qualifications. You can have all of them and not be a nation-state, and you can be a nation-state and lack one or more of them.
So this claim about criteria for being a nation-state and everything resting on it is complete bunk.