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Uh, they are doing that because they think one of them is going to build the monopoly that will rule the rest of the future approximately forever.
by binary132 2mo ago
Uh, they are doing that because they think one of them is going to build the monopoly that will rule the rest of the future approximately forever.
- piloto_ciego 2mo agoMaybe? But I cannot see that as a stable end state. I think we'll get some sort of weird managed capitalism for exactly that reason. I actually don't really want that sort of outcome, I'd like to see some sort of libertarian socialism arise out of post-scarcity? But what that looks like? I don't know. 20 year old me would have had lots of ideas about how we "ought to be" but now, pushing 40? I am less certain of the things I "know." Regardless, I don't see the really bad guys winning this one...
- binary132 2mo agoand in a world with proprietary world-dominatingly powerful AI, who do you think would be the ones managing that? “the government” would just be a thin proxy layer for whatever the magic box decides