AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
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Re: AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
#2Higher corporate taxes and local control please, thanks.
Re: AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
#3Not much of an AI thing, just the standard "rich people should have (control over) their resources confiscated" that keeps popping up in various forms.
Re: AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
#4Higher corporate taxes and local control please, thanks.
More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with robotics.
Re: AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
#5Higher corporate taxes and local control please, thanks.
More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with robotics.
Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with robotics.
Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.
> Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.
Yeah, won't anyone think of the poor oligarchs, openly fantasizing about creating a permanent underclass?
And the only thing that didn't work out well in the past was central planning by state-owned businesses with 20th century technology. The structure I proposed is nothing like that.
Re: AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with robotics.
Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.
Late-stage capitalism has always worked out so well in the future.
Re: AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
#9Higher corporate taxes and local control please, thanks.
More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with robotics.
This doesn't solve any of the problems. It's not a 19th century factory running on leather-belt-harnessed steam engines. There aren't 10,000 workers. There are at most a few dozen "individual-contributor-level workers". You're still concentrating all of that onto a really small number of people. Who, incidentally, have demonstrated time and again that their behavior tends to imitate the big powerful robber barons' behavior of old (because there are relatively few of them and no one to dilute the aggregate back to your preferred leftist mindsets).
You've really lost the plot.
Re: AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power
#10Higher corporate taxes and local control please, thanks.
Isn’t this basically the situation in Europe?
It seems like that just supercharges brain drain by incentivizing all the smartest and richest people to just move away to a place with lower taxes and less bureaucracy.