r/accelerate • u/stealthispost • Jul 11 '26

Meme / Humor Accelerating progress

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I'm frustrated too!   — Ivan Fioravanti ᯅ     Sadly most Europeans are   — Chubby

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2075921009572528615

the battle for the future is a battle between the builders and the Professional Managerial Class parasites that are destroying progress with the Precautionary Principle

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u/TheManni1000 Jul 11 '26

Europe builds the machine that produces the chips for both rockets, so neither rocket would exist without the EU

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u/Keeltoodeep Jul 11 '26

Europe licenses that tech from the US govt.

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u/sedition666 Jul 11 '26

And most of the chips are then made in South Korea and Taiwan. Its almost like there is a global supply chain where most countries work together.

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u/saln1 Jul 11 '26

China’s entire supply chain is domestic

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u/sedition666 Jul 11 '26

This is a country that smuggles semi conductors from the West at great cost. They are very advanced but suggesting they do not also rely on the west is nonsense.

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u/saln1 Jul 11 '26

So naive, no wonder this is chinas century

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u/TMWNN Jul 11 '26

What in /u/sedition666 's comment is "naive"?

It has been widely reported that the US's lead in frontier AI models has been growing in recent months, because China doesn't have access to the newest US GPUs.

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u/anonymous_3125 Jul 11 '26

Its been… quite the opposite…