Comment by jiggawatts
12 hours ago
These "access gates" and export controls are going to look hilariously quaint in a few years.
It reminds me of the export controls on PlayStation 2 consoles because it was deemed that 6 gigaflops was a "dangerous" amount of computer power, and it couldn't be allowed to fall into the hands of opposing militaries: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-17-fi-20482...
Now the phone in my pocket does 2,500 gigaflops on battery power, and nobody seems interested in banning its export because of that.
To be fair, my understanding of these arguments is that they’re about deltas and not about raw numbers.
I don’t agree with them, but I don’t think it was the raw compute power as much as it was maintaining the _delta_ in compute power.
I'm mildly sad you didn't use 2,500 jiggaflops