A group of Amazon employees spoke out against unfettered AI infrastructure expansion at a Seattle Land Use and Sustainability Committee hearing this week.
Yeah, it’s a nation wide hail Mary project for the rich. Either AI works and it launches them beyond the competition or China passes USA, becomes the new superpower and things get bad anyway. The bottom 99% is going to suffer anyway.
Geo-politics and global trade is not a zero-sum game. In fact trade is one of the earliest and most prevalent examples of a non-zero sum game that benefits all parties and creates the environment necessary for long-term peaceful relations.
It can create the environment, but doesn’t make it inevitable. People still do boneheaded moves for more money or power. Russia did invaded Ukraine because it thought trade dependencies would rule out sanctions and counteractions.
Yeah, it’s a nation wide hail Mary project for the rich. Either AI works and it launches them beyond the competition or China passes USA, becomes the new superpower and things get bad anyway. The bottom 99% is going to suffer anyway.
Geo-politics and global trade is not a zero-sum game. In fact trade is one of the earliest and most prevalent examples of a non-zero sum game that benefits all parties and creates the environment necessary for long-term peaceful relations.
It can create the environment, but doesn’t make it inevitable. People still do boneheaded moves for more money or power. Russia did invaded Ukraine because it thought trade dependencies would rule out sanctions and counteractions.