[Paul T]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Tracks with what i'm told by my contact in the industry.

What's happening now is AI companies, VC people involved with them, etc are quietly lobbying POTUS and Congress to keep this technology from paying the public for helping to build this tech with training. That is they feel they have created oxygen and want to be able to sell it and keep the money.

IMO there are times when a resource becomes so precious that it must not be owned privately. Tech bros realize The People will eventually come to this conclusion and grasp the idea that every bit of knowledge these systems have has been taken from them without payment. Their strategy to combat this is the China boogeyman. Every time you here David Sacks and others from the industry say 'if we don't win this AI war China will take over the world' you should understand they are simply trying to scare POTUS and Congress into letting them have what they want.

It is the mechanism by which private property (you will own nothing and like it) will be taken from The People. You and I will have no means of earning to pay for our assets. And that WILL spread as the trades and retail run out of customers.

Now put yourself in the place of Congress who is quietly being told what is happening (they got this article or one just like it long ago) and ask what you would do. White collar looting is happening now and will increase until it all collapses.

We have a choice today. Take this monster away from the greedy tech bro mafia and use every single dollar of proceeds to build this promised utopia that will never otherwise appear. And when the tech mafia threatens us with quitting over $$ we treat them the same way you would treat a soldier on the battlefield who refuses to fight. This is that big a deal.

Don't believe me? Listen to All In podcasts where these guys awkwardly try to slow our understanding of the reality this is bringing. Talk about electricians making $200k per year at massive data center projects and vague notions of 'no you won't lose your job, you'll just be more productive!'.

Good perspectives, thanks. One thing I fear is that if AI does take hold in a way the articles suggests, we are going to see a dumbing down of the general population like never before in a generation (as if it could get worse, lol). I always use the smart phone analogy - when we were younger, we likely had 10, 15, or 20 phone numbers that we could recite off the top of our head. We could actually get places far away without help. Today, most folks (myself included) know 2 or 3 phone numbers tops and use GPS to go around the block! Imagine if AI at some point is smarter than any human alive- our brains will atrophy, and quickly, as we will just use AI for everything. The implications beyond that point get dark really fast….