And I have to add, and many here will hate me for this, but Biden bears a lot of responsibility for this mess. He refused to engage with the biggest tech players. He ignored them.
With so much at stake, that was one of the all time blunders. It pushed them all into the arms of Trump.
With so much at stake, that was one of the all time blunders. It pushed them all into the arms of Trump.
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Agree... not only Biden, but none of the politicians were ready to regulate AI.
Now... greedy corporate interests + no brakes
The chokehold of an oligarchy upon us.
Uncharted waters.
We need some lifeboats!
I heard Obama wasn’t much better and Harris ignored their phone calls. That wasn’t smart at all.
That’s a fact.
If you believe that winning AI is an American and corporate imperative, as they obviously and must do, their choosing to work with Trump was inevitable.
Trump isn't "friendly" to tech. He's friendly to graft.
@hankgreen.bsky.social
@bakarisellers.bsky.social
@nytimes.com
And I 💯 agree neither Trump nor Biden understands tech, nor do most Senators or Representatives
What matters is the mixture. There has to be a balance between privatizing everything or socializing everything. Capitalists can and have run amuck without regulation.
We have the resources to do it. For every person to have a shot at this thing
5 billionaires own it.
FOR YOU.
It’s not a religion.
Wish on a golden calf, Cube.
There you go. The shadow
didn’t go away, did it?
Use your head, Boss.
Seriously.
We have made the grave error of blending the two.
"No man is free without laws"
I would add no markets function without rules.
And it is the rules which have been done away with.
But it's what we got. And you make some compelling points.
Unless this is you prepping us for news of your "donation"... 🤔
A few regulations here and there can wreck any of these companies in seconds.
A dead Senator, member of Congress…anything
I look at your online drug company and see responsible capitalism.
You profit. Customers benefit. No one seems to get fucked in the process.
In pure capitalism, we are simply bags of meat with a checkbook, to be squeezed dry.
Even that would be OK, if there was true competition.
This bastardized system we have now has been corrupted.
The end.
1) The theory of capitalism - hey, it's beautiful on paper.
2) The practice of "capitalism" - the mutated bastard stepchild of the thing described in the textbooks.
3) Bonus third thing: At this point, we're more of an oligarchy, anyway.
WTF are we supposed to do about it?
All I've got is to boycott the whole ugly lot. Starve the beast.
Do you have any other suggestions for people who can't even fathom your wealth?
Billionaires, including yourself, are not compatible with Democracy.
Google search is the most spectacularly obvious thing gone wrong but the ads, ads, everywhere, it's not a way to live.
Then, regulation should come into play
And innovation only necessary IF there is still competition. Big tech fine with oligopoly & not the visionary good guys here
I mean, how many billions DO YOU GUYS NEED?
Capitalism is the worst!
Hey Mark, consider joining a few of us on a four-year-long cruise. There's no reason not to, really:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ouf2p3u3xlqo6cymhtlztslp/post/3lewixtfiws2q
(All I can afford)
But that alone gives me mental peace that I’ll be out of the country when the immoral criminal takes office 🤷
The profit % per item should have a cap to prevent price gouging etc. Sell all you want just don't be greedy.
YOU know!
Not planning on debating it. I watched that Ek blight make billions off Spotify by underpaying creatives. He calls creativity "content". Screw AI.
I think consumers have massive influence over companies. That they have far more influence , because of social media , than ever before.
It’s just that bezos, musk, Zuckerberg are easy to dislike. They put winning above all
They all can and will be disrupted. That’s why AI is so important to them
The wild card is how we interact with china. I have no idea where that goes
Assholes shouldn’t make decisions for other assholes.
We need a different name for a system of regulated markets or something 🤷♀️
They’re down to stripping the copper out of the walls to meet quarterly expectations.
The US can’t even reliably launch rockets to space without the assistance of a kindly oligarch.
Objectively, capitalism raised literally billions for poverty and subsistence level existence to a decent life.
Capitalism is one of the most important forces for good. Like everything else, it has flaws.
The thing that changed all that was capitalism and trade.
Reagan started dismantling them for now-very-obvious reasons.
AI will need even more safeguards applied, but it won’t happen under this incoming regime. Scary.
It feels like no one is willing to press the brakes on AI.
Thank you for speaking for the everyman on Mark's spacebar techniques.
Speak truth to power ✊🏼
I’ve never used Amazon or Facebook.
I use Google products less & less, left Twitter.
I do have an iPhone.
I do use ProtonMail, DuckDuckGo, Bluesky.
What more can I do?
What are Anthropic, LLama, Gemini?
Grok & ChatGpt heard of but don’t use. Will I need them ?
https://www.asapdrew.com/p/best-ai-2024-chatgpt-gemini-claude-perplexity
• a u.s. representative
• internet guy
what a list
I still don’t know how to tell reals from fakes..!
https://www.laresistance47.com/
Crony Capitalism will only expand over the next 4 years — we’ve already been given a preview.
Got it.
I could live with that
And rationalizing, or casually dismissing those corrupt means doesn't help the pro capitalism argument.
Capitalism as defined by the guy with the beard is the theft of labor.
A business making money isn’t automatically capitalism, but let them go on
Not socialism at all.
The US capitalism produces a few obscenely rich people on the base of exploitation of the working class.
Pessimists are worried it might be true
Popular culture greatly influences the nature of capitalism. Gordon Gekko (re Milton Friedman), ye had no grasp of the damage you caused.
History is pretty plain about this, but every time some evergreen generation of unhinged id jumps right to doing enshittification at scale...
But it has been decades since our last meaningful trust busting action. It is sorely needed.
Until there is an alternative, more and more Americans will be brainwashed to authoritarianism.
They don’t even care about Jan 6, except to support it.
but a question: you say "penultimate"
which implies you know what the ultimate "global power war" is
so, what is the ultimate global power war going to be?
Technology in the hands of a greedy few is creating a top-down hierarchy that is unsustainable, at best. At worst, it’s Skynet level fascism at our door.
How could Biden's favor appease them enough to not curry Trump's? For them, this is good business.
I do not ascribe patriotism to any of them.
They know Trump can be easily manipulated and are counting on it for their personal fortunes.
We became the powerhouse of a country that we are because of innovation, and we must never let that stagnate. The consequences would be grave.
On your posts regarding this:
https://politizoom.com/mark-cuban-explains-why-billionaires-really-want-trumps-ear/
There is only AI winning.
https://bsky.app/profile/boldlyblue.bsky.social/post/3leuemsbfhc2o
The Better Offline podcast covers all of the fundamental issues In nauseating detail.
Maybe if they greased Biden with tens of millions of dollars they would have gotten more attention from Biden.
PS: I know the donations were legal, but our campaign finance system is just codified corruption.
https://attap.ai/chat/s/0a289db5-46ab-4f38-a6cb-35cea5aa5e55/
It’s not “malarky,” ffs, it’s abject fucking malfeasance. That bit only dawned on him during the debate-slack-jawed realization: “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in KS anymore.
Doesn't solve the issue at hand, but it reinforces an awful precedent.
if that is a *thing*
Adjusted for technological inflation, we're in exactly the same place as we were then.
ftfy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pfizer-unions-others-donated-618-mln-bidens-inaugural-2021-04-21/
That said, I think Mark is off here. Trump is just responding to cash donations. He's not a patriot any more than Musk is.
who do you like best regarding AI? who is your horse? Gemini and I have become good friends
SV's "move fast & break things culture" is filled w bad faith, disingenuous, grifting actors. Lina Khan is not an old fogy who doesn't understand the tech, she sees through the hype, understands it all too well.
Trump has others do the thinking.
TL;DR
[citation needed]
old school, he engaged in old school politics - during a time when the GOP politicians were actually human beings - but those days are over
Current administration engaged with them but did it above the board
When they were good partners, they worked together
When not, they didn't
And when tech abused their dominance, they were sued in court
No one "pushed' them into Trump's embrace, that they chose on their own
Anytime the Biden admin would try to communicate, tech bros would put out tweets basically saying 'the government wants me to do this because they are COMMIES'
Isn't that an issue with billionaire conduct, not the Democrat White House
These things are mutually exclusive.
Lina Khan put the breaks on the monopolists and the FED raised rates thereby screwing up the unlimited cash cow which the VCs who fund these digital shitholes rely on.
Bezos is corrupt
Zuckerberg is corrupt
Musk is corrupt
Trump is corrupt
Most of the Supreme Court is corrupt
Most Republicans in the Congress and Senate are corrupt
Checks and balances are long in the past.
If the Supreme Court didn’t give Trump all that power…
If your 3 Michelin stars chef makes an out of this world dish and then pisses on it, will you eat it?
Not doing AI and missing out on a major tech breakthrough > spending tens / hundreds of billions on AI.
No one wants to be the next Blackberry.
That’s not Biden’s fault @mcuban.bsky.social
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-
executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/
Let alone what we have now.
We are in the Gilded Age again. Very sad
Also, the problem in this country is that one side will try to let the free market alone (within reason), while the other side will try to corruptly distort the market if they feel there's a political/financial upside in it for them