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Right, but the vast majority of people living in the USA as citizens have threat models that rightly do not include "Being disappeared by China"





What about the threat model that goes, "Trump threatens to impose 1000% tariffs if Chinese don't immediately turn over copies of all data captured by their AI products from users in the US?"

Compounding the difficulty of the question: half of HN thinks this would be a good idea.


The history of tariff talks seems to indicate that rather than oblige, China would stop all shipments of semiconductors to the US and Trump would back down after a week or two.

TACO...

True. Now imagine a future POTUS who has all of Trump's faults except his endearingly-feckless idiocy.



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