Multiple middlemen are better than just one. Also, you can test its effectiveness.

He’s off the leash. Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court will stop him.

That’s not socialism. It’s state capitalism. Socialism would mean the workers owned (and controlled, not just nominally owned) the means of production.

They can use their AI to check if I’m using AI in my job application.

Well, there’s also 0.1% who are relatives of old people who are tring to keep in touch with the batty old meme-forwarders. I was one of those until the ones who mattered most to me shuffled off this mortal coil.

They should bring back chain shot.

Always watch what they do, not what they say.

Tesla would never exist in a capitalist system.

This is a capitalist system. You might be referring to a free-market system, but those are rare and short-lived. Almost every capitalist system has subsidies, back-handers, state-protected monopolies and oligopolies, corruption, dirigiste policies, regulatory capture, and so forth. You can claim that none of it is capitalism, but it occurs in the only capitalist systems that exist in real life, so I suggest that you’re confusing “should” and “is.”

It drastically reduced the minimum buy-in needed to play.

He sure as shit wasn’t a brilliant writer. He was more endowed with the cunning of a proto-Trump huckster-weasel.

…if you get a solution at all.

How about that: venture capitalists don’t know what’s going on in the market any more than anyone else does. They’re just arrogant because they have metric shit-tons of money.

but it was capitalists who made smartphones and computers

Lately, capitalists of a very mercanitlist kind.

Two sides of the same coin. Colonialism is an implementation of the capitalist notion of comparative advantage, stabilized and enforced with guns.

It sometimes happens like that. And sometimes a big player will emerge early in the proceedings and stay on top for an extended period: General Motors, Boeing, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Google. Sometimes there’s even a bit of innovation before they settle into stealing all the sunlight from the smaller trees.

Yeah, they seem to have sped up the process. But something else to keep in mind is that we don’t know what the saturation point is with current AI technology. It’s most likely far less that what has been hyped, but regardless, if our governments had any sense, they’d be getting a sensible regulatory framework in place right now rather than being overtaken by events as they usually are.

Wow, we could have been talking about Jacquard mills and running essentially the same narrative.

Even someone as far back as Adam Smith knew that businesses hate competition and will do anything they can to avoid it. The broligarchy was speed-running the construction of an oligopoly and lobbying the government to erect barriers to entry so they could take their sweet time milking us dry. Now I’m not sure about what the real backstory of DeepSeek might be, but it is still satisfying to see Altman get his ass handed to him.

Those poor little hothouse flowers.

Google are doing it to kiss Trump’s incontinent ass.