Complaints that Stargate should be a public program like the Manhattan project haven’t learned a lesson.
The greatest technology of the 20th century has only ever been in control of the government, governments can make nuclear warheads at will and have learned to make small reactors that can power submarines. The benefits are never passed on to you. Even if you managed to recreate the technology from scratch (as some have) it will be taken from you. There are plenty of road blocks when it comes to powering your community or home with nuclear that simply don’t apply to the state’s war making ability.
Why should the next most consequential innovation of human history be in the control of those same institutions. The implication is that it will be geared more towards helping humanity, I simply don’t have that faith in our institutions and don’t know why you would.
The best case for these AI ventures is that they improve the capacity of business at home and around the globe, I am highly against their resources being outsourced to make governments both local and national more efficient, or their solutions being mandated into industry.
Larry Ellison can try all he wants to make an AI MRNA venture, as long as you have the ability to not consent I imagine it will be a failure and the resources would be moved to something you do want to put your money towards. They will approach the government with a partnership with the idea that public funds will be saved compared to old methods. This is what must be rejected, not the data center ventures themselves.
Entirely new grid and power systems will be necessary to power these data centers that will need to be built and maintained by humans. I feel for anyone whose job is on the chopping block, but it’s a tale as old as human technological history. We would be naive to hold it back.
American politicians saying Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism is a pot calling the kettle black moment. Or do we only sponsor rebels/freedom fighters?
Trump responding to Elon:
“Elon is talking about files, I don’t know anything about files. I’m in a lot of files, let me tell you, they are great files. Tons of paper, sometimes digital, occasionally a nail file. I’m the president, my name is on a new file everyday.”