I think about this a **lot**:

"Crypto is decentralizing, AI is centralizing. If you wanna frame it more ideologically, you could say crypto is libertarian and AI is communist" - Peter Thiel

🇧🇷🇺🇸-  Book: Making Things Think: https://holloway.com/mtt. Investor in Wander, Carry, Footprint, Merkle Manufactory (Farcaster), Dynamic, Paragraph.

The ideological framing is a bit too extreme but I think it’s directionally correct.

That’s why open-sourcing weights and making distributed training a practical alternative are important.

Prime Intellect is an interesting company in this space.

Nobody centralized power and resources like these capitalists. "Communism" is scary for them because it means decentralizing economic power into the working class and lower classes which threatens their centralization. So I would say he's got it backwards.

Peter is one of the smartest human beings today. Intersting how we can combine crypto and AI.

I think communist is the wrong word lol, if anything crypto is communist. Eh the word has lost its meaning by now, it’s just been battered into oblivion

Both are centralized for convenience. AI just needs its tornado cash moment.