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Just thinking out loud here, but in sam altman's recent blog, he mentions that the chief resources that go into build AGI are training compute, data, and inference compute. From this he draws the conclusion that the balance of power between capital and labor are going to be disrupted, and so we need a ubi but with compute.
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Isn't it the case that training compute and inference compute come from chips and electricity which with unit economics and nuclear will become cheap. This leaves data as the main bottleneck. If we assume the continuation of no data ownership, then it makes sense that we trend toward a communistic situation.
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Instead of the state taking your cows and giving you milk, AGI companies will take your data which is like work and give you compute units.
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The natural barrier to communism is private property rights, and so the barrier to the imbalance of capital and labor should be digital property rights. Last crypto cycle, there was a lot of talk about digital property rights, but there isn't much talk about it now. I've only loosely kept up with story protocol and merit systems.
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What's the frontier of the work being done on this?
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https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations
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