What Dylan Patel thinks about government

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1. 3 Feb 2025

   Our readingAmerican export controls police floating-point operations while memory and interconnect matter just as much, and reasoning models make that the wrong axis to control.

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   Their wordsFLOP is the vector that the government has cared about historically, but the other two vectors are arguably just as important. And especially when we come to this new paradigm, which the world is only just learning about over the last six months: reasoning.

   ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 16th of 44 in this recording