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I think there is plenty of evidence that companies can be successful and at the same time compliant in not giving strategic technological advances to oppressive
by hashtag-til 3y ago
I think there is plenty of evidence that companies can be successful and at the same time compliant in not giving strategic technological advances to oppressive regimes that will weaponise such tech.
- monocasa 3y agoI think for leading edge technology, if these regimes can reproduce your work at all, whether they do so is more about the incentive structures in place. By restricting access, you provide the incentives for them to truly indigenously invest in the technology. By restricting access, you actually remove all control of the technology you had in the first place. After a bunch of back and forth, the US blocked access to Intel chips used in the Sunway Tianhe-2 supercomputer. The next version, the Sunway TaihuLight, was the fastest supercomputer in the world for two years, running on indigenously designed Chinese chips.
- Dylan16807 3y agoInstruction set specs are not a strategic technological advance that can be weaponized. They just say what a chip should do. They don't help you make one that's more sophisticated than a basic unoptimized microcontroller, and "basic unoptimized microcontroller" is something you can get random college graduates to do.