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Andrew Ng is right, of course: the monopolists are frantically trying to produce regulatory capture around AI. However, why are governments playing along?

My hypothesis is that they perceive AI as a threat because of information flow. They are barely now understanding how to get back to the era where you could control the narrative of the country by calling a handful of friends - now those friends are in big tech.




Because that is the goal of the democratic party and progressivism in general: to consolidate power as much as possible. They don't hide that.

Republicans also want to consolidate power, they just lie about it more.


Republicans = people

Democrats = people

You = people

I think the problem is people.




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