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A lot of sour grapes on here, and the attendant cognitive dissonance. Communism and open-source development have overlapping ideals, and there's no better project for worldwide cooperation than AI. But that's at odds of the US having monopolistic control over the SOTA. Ultimately capitalism horseshoes into the authoritarianism, gross inequality, and poverty of the Soviet states it likes to contrast itself to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory



"and there's no better project for worldwide cooperation than AI"

What happened to fighting climate change?


Sure, that too




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