Post #4481549 · Elektrine

2026-08-09 09:13 UTC

@ajswritesthings@plasmatrap.com we've basically got two "actually existing" institutions that can channel this kind of capital concentration - firms run by wildly wealthy capitalists, or states. Obviously both of them have significant likely problems! I myself don't really have a better solution that "let's try to make sure the states are run by nice principled leftists, with some institutional constraints on despotism" tbh, but I do think it's a general problem rather than one specific to this tech, iykwim

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@ajswritesthings@plasmatrap.com 2026-08-09 14:03

@Lafargue@mastodon.social my thoughts on this are a complete mess tbh lol, but: wrt 1) I'm not sure the huge, continuous growth in personal computing power will hold? Ofc there could be a huge breakthrough tomorrow, but we're hitting the physicial limits of what can be done with the current tech e.g. single core cpu performance has been flatlining for years now. Tech capitalists certainly seem to be betting the farm that personal computers won't be able to run actually useful general purpose LLMs. That said (and to hammer home how messy my thoughts are on this lol) I think that investors could well be monumentally wrong about this once Chinese chip manufacturing catches up. There are just so many unknowns atm 🤷‍♂️

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