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Restricting models means restricting a field of knowledge

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A Conversation with Ben Horowitz (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

If a model is mathematics made executable, then limiting what models may do limits what mathematics may be done — a control surface with a precedent in nuclear physics and an unmeasurable cost in whatever the classification prevented.

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2026-02-22: An investor asks whether overclassification cost fundamental physics decades

2026-02-22: An official confirms that regulating models means regulating mathematics

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Restricting models means restricting a field of knowledge
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