Comment by SubiculumCode
2 days ago
While your critiques most likely have some validity (and I am not positioned to judge their validity), you failed to offer a concrete policy alternative. The rules were undoubtedly made with substantial engagement from the industry and academic researchers, as there is too much at stake for them not to engage, and vigorously. Likely there were no perfect policy solutions, but decided to not let the perfect stop the good enough since timeliness matters as much or more than the policy specifics.
Doing nothing is a better alternative, because these restrictions will just encourage neutral countries to purchase Chinese GPUs, because their access to US GPUs is limited by these regulations. This will accelerate the growth of Chinese GPU companies and slow the growth of US-aligned ones; it's basically equivalent to the majority of nations in the world placing sanctions on NVidia.
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