Comment by JumpCrisscross
3 days ago
> a realistic economic scenario for how we're going to transition into our utopian abundant future
One aspect almost certainly has to be data centers being run as utilities. That forces transparency, resists monopolization and gives public commissions a say in e.g. expansion.
Hell no, the current state of centralized AI is bad enough, socializing it won't make it better.
We need to let the AI as a service businesses fail.
But in the meantime you prefer privately-controlled monopsony datacenters?
Yes I'd much rather big investment firms waste their money instead of government.