Nobody talking about appropriating Musk’s trillion to give to the poor seems to have noticed that almost all of the trillion consists of various forms of equity in companies that are held together with a combination of smoke, mirrors and wishful thinking and that in the event of a government seizure all of it is pretty much valueless
Then again, the international community should be aware that Elon could turn off Starlink in Ukraine tomorrow—almost certainly leading to the end of their war, as the Ukrainians are deeply reliant on it.
So maybe good to set more respectful tone
“Will my stated concern for American job displacement include retrospective policy analysis about how Ross Perot was right about NAFTA and H-1B wage arbitrage shutting out domestic white collar talent? No, because going public is somehow a conduit to providing more, uh meaning…”
Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: https://t.co/Lh6PWae178
For every radical leftist you see online & think you defeated, there are 10 more providing the logistics necessary for being a radical leftist. Those people are fully integrated into normie society & gatekeep everything from anybody remotely rightoid. Woke is not dead at all.
it would be very funny if the american tech job market were saved by broad export controls on advanced models that forced companies to choose between (1) hiring only us citizens or (2) not using ai tools
The same people who routinely said that their product was going to destroy white collar employment as we know it are now saying that half their company can't do any meaningful work due to export controls. Possibly this will give them all a chance to reflect.
“We don't want to sell our most advanced capabilities to the U.S. military, but we will continue to ship them to foreigners.”
What did people think was going to happen.
“This technology is going to fundamentally reshape society & the economy which is why you should just let liberals control, manage, oversee, gatekeep, and regulate every single aspect of it.”
Yeah, like: no.
> the U.S. government was just going to cede its monopoly on force & force projection, particularly in warfighting, to some 200-person polycule from San Francisco without resorting to the many, many, many regulatory authorities it has to maintain such monopoly