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  • I am aware that the wealthy already have control of AI, but that grasp isn’t firm yet. That is why it is important for people to start thinking about policy and implementation now, rather than letting the elite to shape the narrative.

    As to optimism, AI is an technology, and it is improving quickly. Eventually, local AI will be able to fit into our phones, and be superior in quality and speed to what I have on my PC*. We should try to initiate an endeavor to make AI available to everyone. For example, Switzerland is working on Apertus, a sovereign AI model for themselves. The development of libre AI is extremely important for sustaining democracy, because it will become a fundamental tool for any modern society.

    *A 5950x CPU, 128gb DDR4, 4090, and 3060. I can run 120b models on this aged but fairly powerful machine. Two years ago, on the same PC specs, 70b AI at best, with much inferior quality and speed. It used to take an hour to get output that I receive in minutes now.


  • Your position is bad, because it ensures the worst outcome. AI is just one form of power, that evil people will gladly make use of. Either we make it so that society in general understand and is able to control it, or simply allow a group of evil people to obtain sole mastery over the technology.

    Say for example if conservatives were the only people with guns, while minorities of all kinds refused to have weapons. Who do you think will end up being bullied, enslaved, and slaughtered? AI is that question, but for economics.

    The reason why I push for every household to have a home server and robot, is to prevent an accumulation of power. If governments and corporations had to receive industrial power from citizens, that makes them much more beholdened to democracy and following the will of the people.





  • I think both sides are correct. AI will be still around a decade and centuries from now, and AI poses great risks. The real question is, “Who controls it?”

    Hopefully the students do not try to destroy the loom, but instead try to make sure that they are so common and easy to use, that corporations do not have genuine control over the usage of AI. Every minority should have a digital lawyer that has 95% of the ability of Disney’s, to protect people from Kavenaugh Stops. Every poor person should be able to manage their finances just as well as the most blueblooded billionaire. Every household should own a home server and a robot, leasing their usage to corporations. Those corporations shouldn’t own the AI nor robots.

    What I am saying, is that we should structure society to ensure that the worst people are not our masters forevermore. Their goal is to control the means of production, and to remove our lives from the process. Both figuratively AND literally.







  • I think that if there is a complete replacement of the economic workings in the USA, part of it would involve how taxes are assessed and collected. For the corporations, they shouldn’t be responsible for their book-keeping. Instead, the State and Federal governments jointly undertake this duty, assigning their own personnel.

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    Each quarter of the year, a coin is flipped. Tails, the State government does the IRS duties, and Heads, it is the Federal. Each of these governments respectively cover exactly half of the year’s book-keeping, but the timing and personnel is randomized.

    This helps mitigate corruption, because it randomizes who is looking at a company’s finances. Corruption relies on social trust between thieves to not sell each other out for mutual profit, which requires the thieves to figure out who can be worked with. By constantly replacing who they have to work with, the corporations can’t create ideal conditions to become corrupt.

    Having the federal and state governments comparing their records also helps keep them from becoming corrupt themselves: They don’t want to share the corrupt pie, so all three parties have to agree to be rotten if they want to do shady dealings. That is much harder when there are many loose lips and competing interests to sink ships.