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Re:US blocking Swiss access to AI chips by lmm on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:50AM (#42838477)
The US classifies people into racial categories based on skin tone, and then imagines that these racial categories are objective and used around the world.
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Re:US blocking Swiss access to AI chips by iforgot22 on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:02AM (#42838564)
The original comment by a Dane here said "white," a skin tone.
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Re:US blocking Swiss access to AI chips by lmm on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:04AM (#42838579)
I suspect they meant the US-cultural racial category "white" (which is of course named for the skin tone).
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