I realized what bothers me about @vitalik.eth d/acc essay. Even though it is optimistic, it shares with the pessimist side a presumption that technology, as an evolutionary process, *can* be governed according to some notion of human intent.

“Tech can/cannot be governed” is a bigger divide than optimism/pessimism

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I'm in the tech can't be governed, mostly.

Counter examples
- Nuclear
- Aviation
- Pharmaceuticals

They all share a very high fixed cost to build the infrastructure to get started.

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And are also heavily regulated which for semiconductors is not the case modulo sanctions which don't really slow down innovation

Semiconductor fabrication and gpu clusters don’t require high fixed costs? 🤔

isn‘t a prime example of this

- specialized silicon

otherwise we‘d see taiwan and ASML copies succeeding in the US