• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      He wants to take 7 trillion dollars from AI companies. That’s what a sovereign wealth fund is, it’s when you take profits from a source, and store it to use on things like health care, wellfare, pensions, public transport, housing, infrastructure, ect.

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        23 days ago

        Lol, good one, who actually thinks AI companies are profitable?

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        21 days ago

        Can you show everybody here where that money will come from?

        Is the money in the room with us right now?

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        23 days ago

        The page says it’s a one-time tax… so which AI companies have that?

        I would like to know how much would actually be in that fun right away rather than what it could maybe be. Valuations are skewed. We know this. Just look at WeWork.

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        23 days ago

        He’s calling for a group under the current US president to have 50% of the stock of the AI companies… And only the AI (read: no-path-to-profit) part of those companies.

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            23 days ago

            Is it normal to exclude the profitable part of the company?

            I am very worried about this because AI lobbyists have done a great job of pushing politicians around. Bernie Sanders himself has accepted Eli Yudkowski, an AI doom cult leader, as a reputable source.

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                23 days ago

                A 50% government ownership in only the AI portion of company shares, you mean?

                Wouldn’t the Trump administration then have an interest in making the share value go up for those companies?

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                    23 days ago

                    The problem is that the only way to make AI profitable is to be exploitative.

                    Also, I’m not sure why you think the US government would use it to benefit the people.

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                    23 days ago

                    Profit motives tend to do bad things. Like the poison emissions caused by Grok data centers. Like the 2000 missiles launched with it too - remember those?

                    Why do you want the Trump administration to help Elon Musk make more profit all of a sudden?

                    Why are you painting that as a good thing?