Yeah because they got billions by extracting it like mosquitos. It came mostly from your billions I assume. Without that it would have been all yours. Clearly you have zero concept of how an economy works.
You know the extraction is more like 10000-to-1 than 1-to-1.
But in essence I do believe that I (and thousands of others) could have had at least $100k more net worth if they hadn't monopolized all user-acquisition channels and if they hadn't helped bring about the many laws and regulations which made this possible.
I have no ill feelings towards them but I just don't want them in my state competing against me for limited resources using money which they acquired through an unjust scheme which I was coercively made a part of but which I never agreed to and have been protesting for almost a decade (on deaf ears).
It's not personal or even saying anything negative about their character or abilities. From my perspective it's just pure self-preservation. They either need to contribute more tax to make up for the injustice or they leave.
When they sell their assets, it makes those assets more affordable for the rest of us. So any forced sale is good for society. I don't see any issues with it. We were/are forced to prop up their stocks through government contracts, grants and regulatory monopolies... So they should contribute something on their end too.
And I don't care about the "jobs they create" - They created jobs for my competitors to get easy money in cushy jobs. I want those jobs gone too! I don't want FAANG employees bidding up house prices in my area.
I only want to compete against people who are playing by the same rules as me! I don't want to compete against people who can rewrite the rulebook as we go, to suit them.
California is full of people who do not understand how investment works and want it gone. This is progress missing from progressive. It is the social missing from socialist. Ists and ivs with nothing, merely a pack of stupid ideas. The residual is reality: no-teeth, drug-induced stupor sleeping in street squalor and their rent-seeking enablers cozying up to the tax authorities.
If the rest of the world follows them on regulations they've thought through before anyone else, then I don't know what you would call that other than leading? Like, definitionally that's what leading is.
It's interesting you're so derisive of actual, pragmatic leadership, of y'know deciding how we as a society will relate to new technologies - not just unthinkingly building gadgets.
It is telling that most aggressive forms of “capitalism” plead for government involvement to permanently limit new competition. I own something and I don’t want anyone else to have a chance. The marginal cost of bribing a senator is tiny tiny tiny compared to the value.
Completely correct. We are moving into a world where any person can have anything they want, only limited by capacity to produce it. People love information and digest great quantities of it. The marginal cost of information production is going to zero. This is only bad for people who spend their time shuffling bits. If you want to not suffer, go do things other than move bits around.
And what about when general purpose robots become practical? What will people do then?
I don't understand this view of "AI empowers workers more than capital" at all. To me it's the exact opposite. Workers hold political and economic power today because they are needed. When that is no longer true, those in power will have no incentive to listen to them. The political economy of unregulated AGI development feels incredibly bleak: https://borretti.me/article/when-the-future-doesnt-need-us
> It’s a bit of a self-serving argument, don’t you think?
I would call it more of a self-selecting one. Anthropic is basically hiring people with that mentality. I'm pretty sure that most of them do sincerely believe it, too. I'm skeptical about Dario himself though. The man had an opportunity to show moral backbone, and failed to do so; why should I trust him on that again?
> And how does that relate to the ask for oligopoly licensing within global democracy?
They are basically saying that they'll stop if everybody else does, which requires some kind of global enforcement mechanism.
> “We must build the nuclear bomb first in order to make sure no one else builds one.” This the most nonsense, disingenuous argument imaginable.
The difference between nuclear bomb and AGI (as understood by the likes of Anthropic) is that the latter triggers the technological singularity that renders any runner-ups moot. That is, so long as AGI is developed, we're going to get our robot overlords either way, but whoever gets there first gets to define their ethical system. If that is one's perspective, and if one sincerely believes that they are the only ones who can do it right, it's a coherent argument. It's just that the premises are very arrogant.
Your analogy with nukes actually works better for the position that AI development needs to be unconstrained because otherwise we'll lose the arms race to China. That is basically a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szilard_lette.... I honestly don't know where I am on this. Realistically, if AI is indeed a power multiplier - and with all the recent security stuff it's hard to not see it that way - then an arms race feels inevitable, especially given the current worldwide political situation. I could believe in sincere international cooperation on this back in 1990s, but there's way too much saber rattling all around for it to work (and note that this goes both ways, i.e. China can similarly not be certain that US isn't secretly developing more powerful AI even if we do publicly announce a freeze).
All of the things it has done is just what people are already doing. Every single one. It helps, but there are already people doing this stuff. And we already have defenses against the existing attacks. We might have to defend better, but the real problem is “Who is setting the moral compass over generations.” One one hand, that will inherently fall to future generations. On the other, we are laying the groundwork.
Imagine you use it to inflict trauma on your cruelest political enemy. Then next year they do that to you. That is war, and we already do it. But we don’t want people / governments in charge that are going to do this.
God knows we have governments and individuals doing this historically, and this is probably the greatest source of historic instability. It might be the single best argument for open models — a unified frontier where no single exploit is going to represent capture.
This is exactly the opposite of what Dario proposes.
Ok - but the post I was responding to was suggesting we do the opposite and provide the intelligence to the people so I’m not sure how your reply rebuts my suggestions.
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