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I thought the reason we agreed to sell AI chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE was because they promised to use the US AI stack, not the Chinese one. But Saudi is now using Chinese AI models to build their own models, and is using US chips to develop/run it. We are getting played.

387 likes72 repliesPosted Sep 3, 2026

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Why it worked

Promises an answer and holds it back, which pulls the reader down the post.
Opens a question in the reader’s mind and withholds the answer until later.
Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Opens on a negative, which reads as a warning and is harder to ignore than a claim.

The mechanics

Hook: Promises an answer it withholds
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: personal
Mechanisms: Curiosity gap
Written for: People building with AI

Analysis by ViralLoop — not written by the original author.

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