Comment by LunaSea
Genuinely curious, did we ever manage to ban a piece of technology worldwide and effectively?
Genuinely curious, did we ever manage to ban a piece of technology worldwide and effectively?
A large part of geopolitics is concerned with limiting the spread of weapons of mass destruction worldwide and to the greatest possible degree of efficacy. Moreover, the investment to train state-of-the-art models is greater than the Manhattan project and involves larger and more complex supply chains-- it cannot be done clandestinely. Because the scope of the project is large and resource-intensive there are not many bodies that would have to cooperate in order to place impassable obstacles on the path that is presently being taken. 'What if they won't cooperate toward this goal?' -- Worth considering, but the fact is that they can and are choosing not to. If the choice is there it is not an inevitability but a decision.
> Worth considering, but the fact is that they can and are choosing not to. If the choice is there it is not an inevitability but a decision.
Pakistan, Israel, North Korea and South Africa have nuclear weapons while not having the right to do so. So I'm not sure how banning graphics cards, thing we are already failing at in China right now will ever work. Especially if countries like China develop their own chip building capacities.
Do chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) mostly banned by the Montreal Protocol count?