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AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power

https://ai-updates.net/ai-fortunes-philanthropy-private-power/
13•ashurandi•4h ago

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bix6•1h ago
Higher corporate taxes and local control please, thanks.
palmotea•52m ago
More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with robotics.
dadjoker•50m ago
Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.
palmotea•47m ago
> Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past.

Yeah, won't anyone think of the poor oligarchs, openly fantasizing about creating a permanent underclass?

And the only thing that didn't work out well in the past was central planning by state-owned businesses with 20th century technology. The structure I proposed is nothing like that.

toivo•33m ago
Late-stage capitalism has always worked out so well in the future.
josefritzishere•10m ago
Capitalism is failing us right now. Why are you looking in the past?
NoMoreNicksLeft•31m ago
This doesn't solve any of the problems. It's not a 19th century factory running on leather-belt-harnessed steam engines. There aren't 10,000 workers. There are at most a few dozen "individual-contributor-level workers". You're still concentrating all of that onto a really small number of people. Who, incidentally, have demonstrated time and again that their behavior tends to imitate the big powerful robber barons' behavior of old (because there are relatively few of them and no one to dilute the aggregate back to your preferred leftist mindsets).

You've really lost the plot.

Dig1t•10m ago
Isn’t this basically the situation in Europe?

It seems like that just supercharges brain drain by incentivizing all the smartest and richest people to just move away to a place with lower taxes and less bureaucracy.

unwise-exe•52m ago
Not much of an AI thing, just the standard "rich people should have (control over) their resources confiscated" that keeps popping up in various forms.

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https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model
744•riordan•7h ago•410 comments

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https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante
54•ubermon•1h ago•31 comments

Sonic Pi v5

https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-166001392
61•samaaron•3d ago•16 comments

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18•erenberke•1h ago•8 comments

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44•WhiteDawn•1h ago•12 comments

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70•kotaKat•2h ago•66 comments

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106•jonathanmkeegan•4h ago•61 comments

The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29380
16•jmintz•1h ago•1 comments

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54•surprisetalk•2h ago•20 comments

Squeak 6.1

https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/
119•fniephaus•5h ago•65 comments

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51•BoxOfRain•3d ago•9 comments

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https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/
511•etoxin•11h ago•308 comments

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28•bookofjoe•1h ago•8 comments

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173•RickJWagner•2h ago•208 comments

Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

https://jackschaedler.github.io/handwriting-recognition/
15•at1as•1h ago•2 comments

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14•historical1234•1h ago•18 comments

Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11

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14•peter_d_sherman•1h ago•0 comments

Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

https://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week26/OG/html/1547-5/US12670045-20260630.html
136•theanonymousone•4h ago•120 comments

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120•xeonmc•7h ago•35 comments

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17•mooreds•3h ago•4 comments

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350•hipparchus•15h ago•181 comments

Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro

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153•LorenDB•14h ago•50 comments

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87•metadat•1h ago•103 comments

An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/f Noise (2007)

https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/40.php
101•q7m•3d ago•22 comments

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https://mergeimage.app/
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71•NaOH•5d ago•37 comments