alt Hacker News> In any case, they wouldn't exist if not for superior models they were distilled from.
Doesn't matter: if they're good enough and cheaper, they'll sink the US model-makers eventually. The free market demands it.
The US invented solar panels, and led in solar panel tech for a long time. Who leads in solar panel tech now?
China has a playbook for de-industrializing its capitalist rivals. If we leave MBAs and free-marketers in power, China will "come to dominate all technologies, including A.I., and ... America [will] export little more than soybeans and corn" (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/trump-ai-chips-nv...).
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Once China's economy reaches a certain point, will not the same thing happen to them? I'm not sure who will be the next source of cheap/slave labor and lack of concern about negative externalities, maybe Africa?
The rate at which the deconstruction of the United States is progressing is very scary. It seems as if they want to make the former USSR look great, and every individual and institution that could do something about it is standing by with their hands in the air saying 'it wasn't me'. Tech dominance will be the least of the problem, that assumes a large variety of good outcomes where bad outcomes are now a real possibility.