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<p>Intellectual property is a really dumb idea.</p>
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<p>“But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. Its smash and grab. It aint no different than smashing a window at Tiffanys and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA</p>
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<p>Except it isnt and Joe Biden is a senile moron. Because when you smash the windows and grab the stuff, Tiffanys no longer has the stuff. With piracy, everyone has the stuff. Its a lot more like taking a picture, which Tiffanys probably encourages. Win-win cooperation.</p>
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<p>Wealth is being increasingly concentrated. Whats shocking to me is how much everyone still cares about money. Even the die-hard complain about capitalism type deeply cares, because the opposite of love isnt hate, its indifference. I hate scammers, but Im pretty indifferent to money.</p>
<p>The best outcome of AI is if it delivers huge amounts of <em>value</em> to society but no <em>profit</em> to anyone.</p>
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<p>The old days of the Internet were this goldmine. The Internet delivered huge <em>value</em> but no <em>profit</em>, and thats why it was good. Suddenly we had all these new powers.</p>
<p>Then people figured out how to monetize it. It was a race to extract every tiny bit of <em>value</em>, and now we have todays Internet. Can this play out differently with AI?</p>
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<p><b>Lets build technology and open source software that market breaks everything.</b> Lets demoralize the scammers so hard that they dont even try. Every loser and grifter will be gone from technology because theres nothing to be gained there. They can play golf all day or something.</p>
<p>If I ever figure out how to channel power like Elon, I will do this. Spin up open source projects in every sector to eliminate all the capturable value. This is what Im trying to do with comma.ai and tinygrad. I dream of a day when company valuations halve when I create a GitHub repo. Someday.</p>
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Intellectual property is a really dumb idea.
“But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. Its smash and grab. It aint no different than smashing a window at Tiffanys and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA
Except it isnt and Joe Biden is a senile moron. Because when you smash the windows and grab the stuff, Tiffanys no longer has the stuff. With piracy, everyone has the stuff. Its a lot more like taking a picture, which Tiffanys probably encourages. Win-win cooperation.
Wealth is being increasingly concentrated. Whats shocking to me is how much everyone still cares about money. Even the die-hard complain about capitalism type deeply cares, because the opposite of love isnt hate, its indifference. I hate scammers, but Im pretty indifferent to money.
The best outcome of AI is if it delivers huge amounts of value to society but no profit to anyone.
The old days of the Internet were this goldmine. The Internet delivered huge value but no profit, and thats why it was good. Suddenly we had all these new powers.
Then people figured out how to monetize it. It was a race to extract every tiny bit of value, and now we have todays Internet. Can this play out differently with AI?
Lets build technology and open source software that market breaks everything. Lets demoralize the scammers so hard that they dont even try. Every loser and grifter will be gone from technology because theres nothing to be gained there. They can play golf all day or something.
If I ever figure out how to channel power like Elon, I will do this. Spin up open source projects in every sector to eliminate all the capturable value. This is what Im trying to do with comma.ai and tinygrad. I dream of a day when company valuations halve when I create a GitHub repo. Someday.
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> I dream of a day when company valuations halve when I create a GitHub repo. Someday.