David Sacks
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first heard Jul 2026
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Yeah.
But no, I mean, this was very much the narrative.
You sort of had this imminent,
Super intelligence.
And then, you know, one of the refrains you heard was that AI is like nuclear weapons and GPUs are like uranium or plutonium or something.
And so, and therefore we need like, you know, the proper way to regulate this is with like an international atomic energy commission.
And so, you know, again, everything would be sort of centralized and controlled.
And they would anoint two or three winners.
Now, I think this narrative really started to fall apart with the launch of DeepSeek, which really happened in the first, I don't know, couple of weeks of the Trump administration.
If you asked any of these people what they thought of China during this time when they were pushing all these regulations, they basically, and specifically, well, wait, if we shoot ourselves in the foot by over-regulating AI, won't China just win the AI race?
If you were to ask them that, what they would have said, they did say, is that China is so far behind us, it doesn't matter.
And furthermore, and this was said completely without evidence, that if we basically slow down
to impose all these supposedly healthy regulations.
Well, China will just copy us and do the same thing.
I think it was an absurdly naive view.
I think that if we shoot ourselves in the foot, China will just be like, thank you very much.
We'll just take leadership in this technology.
Why wouldn't we?
But this is what they said.
And, you know, when the Biden executive order on AI was crafted, there was no discussion whatsoever of the China compete.
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