Post AiAipcOF7c2DKs7nHs by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
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 (DIR) Post #AiAipagxR3og4KriBE by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
       2024-05-23T02:37:58Z
       
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       Capital is dumping its resources into AI because it believes it will advance capital's interests of further accumulation of labour's products.  It does not matter in the short term that capital is sorely mistaken.  Much like a bad king, capital's misallocation reduces output available to labour too (by preferentially allocating resources to those who participate in the squander).  We will suffer this for so long as we permit capital to make macro allocative decisions.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiAipbkBWXzZKdNnqi by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
       2024-05-23T02:54:23Z
       
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       The current all hands on deck for AI approach of capital is like  if a 20th century property developer were able to allocate substantially all road building, electrification, and water piping resources to a new subdivision.  Which they are sure people want to live in, but actually smells bad and is mostly built atop a landfill.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiAipcOF7c2DKs7nHs by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
       2024-05-23T02:49:45Z
       
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       Read this as advocacy for taking first-order account of the interests of stakeholders other than investors.That probably looks like tax revenue funding open source, for example, without it being about defense or some objective beyond just making industry more efficient.  Like any other project about maintaining the commons.This isn't even so radical as expropriation.  It's just recognition that the digital age made new types of public infrastructure.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiAipcxgzoOJ6oi6Xg by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
       2024-05-23T03:00:51Z
       
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       And that's the thing.  If you end up with such a capitalist who makes wrong projections (technology will totally rise to the occasion and let us remediate the site in short order) and determines that is what we are all going to do, our choices are:- Participate in the squander- Collectively, by boycott, law, or tax, tell them what they may not do with their property.For some reason the zeitgeist is convinced that the latter option is basically treason.