Re:Nasdaq worst day in 19 months, investors bet on AI slowdo...
by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:36AM
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It's a poor analogy, if I understand what you're trying to say.
Do you think we've already finished building what is equivalent of a nuclear bomb in AI? Is that enough to deter all nations? Is it enough that China or other countries will never surpass the US in AI?
Re:Nasdaq worst day in 19 months, investors bet on AI slowdo...
by yawpitch on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:12AM
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It’s an excellent analogy, you just seem to be drifting from your original question.
No one should build these things; at best they’re an extremely costly and dirty technology that can never be used to meaningful advantage, at worst they’re an extremely costly and dirty technology that has a tendency to metastasize and eat away the host from the inside. A reasonable reading of the externalities should put a brake on both building out and on exporting the means of building out.
Re:Nasdaq worst day in 19 months, investors bet on AI slowdo...
by aurareturn on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:28AM
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Come back to the real world.
Opposing the accumulation of nuclear arms (analogy hint: building data centers in the US) is morally, intellectually, and logically consistent with opposing nuclear proliferation (analogy hint: export of GPUs, allowing imaginary or real opponents to widen the, again imaginary or real, stochastic parrot gap).
My point is that it’s perfectly logical to oppose data centers generally and also oppose exporting the tech required to build data centers elsewhere, rather by QED.