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Saul Gonzalez's avatar

I'm a bit surprised that a "China invades Taiwan in 2025-2026" scenario is not included. Seems like all bets would be off then.

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Colin Brown's avatar

1st August 2027 but yes should be factored in.

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Nathan Lambert's avatar

What about how the US will likely spend more of its compute on inference given a more robust cloud and services sector?

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Nick's avatar

Curious how this is affected by the current administration's deportations of researchers. I (kind of) doubt they'll literally deport enough people to make a huge difference on its own, but surely the news about this could make the marginal non-American genius want to move somewhere else to avoid the risk of being thrown in a prison in Louisiana for weeks on end?

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Nathan Lambert's avatar

On the ground in a hybrid academic-industry role, it’s happened already

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Nick's avatar

I anticipate the response will be "not enough before 2027, and anyway this still doesn't change the compute advantage." Which, fair.

Reading through this some more makes me think that a Xi taking the AI race as his number one concern would invade Taiwan tomorrow. Heck he could maybe even get away with pretty limited resistance after buying a couple billion dollars worth of Trump coin

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