[thundergolfer]

The incentive structure that seems clearly best (though not greatly) suited to this large-scale intelligence infrastructure is public investment in publicly owned systems.

Jordan seems to maybe gesture at this, as who owns all the bridges in the the USA? Governments. If we are talking “societal-scale medical system” a majority of people would want that publicly owned and operated and universally accessible.

We’ve already seen in industry that the incentives are to massively in favour of creating walled-gardens that lock in users and thus profits. No societal-wide system should work like our social media ecosystem (FB, Snapchat, TikTok). The dominant profit incentives are also not “human-centric”, as Jordan constantly emphasises. Well, they’re only so if we assume profit-making activity is tightly aligned with “human-centric” concerns. Some will say yes, but to me our climate disaster and the USA mass incarceration system are strong enough evidence that the answer is no.

I think some wealthy Northern European countries are setup well enough to produce “Intelligent Infrastructure”, except for the fact that most of the talent is in the USA.

[randcraw]

If the rising trend toward putting the giant info-broker corporations on tighter leashes continues, I'm hopeful that we might finally start to discuss the 'civil rights of data' — who actually owns data of all kinds, but especially personal data, and what obligations come with using it, sharing it and ensuring that it not be abused.