Remove export controls; state intervention backfires
DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI | Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund)
“There’s no stopping of this technology, this is unstoppable… [The US] has to move out of people’s way… and remove all the export controls… if we didn’t have export controls, DeepSeek wouldn’t exist.” — 00:46:22
Context: Asked what role government should play; later ([00:49:14]) he cites post-Civil War railroad subsidies as the template for state intervention going wrong and says the big ($500B-style) investment plans are “just going to backfire.”