> Why is selling China AI a bad thing? Free market is better. For one, China isn't a free market. If they were perhaps it would be more fair to allow them to e

> Why is selling China AI a bad thing? Free market is better. For one, China isn't a free market. If they were perhaps it would be more fair to allow them to easily compete. For another, countries having (access to) certain capabilities may be negative as life is more than just about commerce and money: > Democratic countries’ economies are mainly set up as free market economies with redistribution, because this is what maximizes living standards in peacetime. In a free market economy, if a foreign country wants to sell you cheap cars, you let them do it, and you allocate your own productive resources to something more profitable instead. If China is willing to sell you brand-new electric vehicles for $10,000, why should you turn them down? Just make B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps, sell them for a high profit margin, and drive a Chinese car. > Except then a war comes, and suddenly you find that B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps aren’t very useful for defending your freedoms. Oops! The right time to worry about manufacturing would have been years before the war, except you weren’t able to anticipate and prepare for the future. Manufacturing doesn’t just support war — in a very real way, it’s a war in and of itself. * https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now China (and others) may have goals other than just making money or a middle-class life sty.e