jmo

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[–] jmo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

This may be another, "do nothing then win" scenario for China. The AI bubble depends on continuous infusion of capital for the next several years. That effectively means a lot of folks need to borrow a lot of money. Interest rates increasing, the cost of power increasing, the costs of CPUs, GPUs, and memory increasing, and a slowdown in delivery times for all those components all exacerbate their core problem. We may well be looking at an AI bubble burst to go along with a broader economic downturn due to the war.

China doesn't need to blockade anyone. Continue to be a reliable and trustworthy partner while the US flounders and see what happens. The only major economy that doesn't depend on AI succeeding is China.