[SequoiaHope]

Wow seriously. It’s funny to hear “socialist tendencies from Europe” after having just listened to Yann LeCunn talk about his views on the need for open source AI. He says simply that the world needs diverse views and we can’t have a small number of companies from the west coast of the US serving as gatekeepers to the world’s knowledge. He’s from France and says the French government wouldn’t be satisfied with that arrangement either. He says we need freedom of information access for the same reason we need a free press.

So yeah LeCunn doesn’t want a small number of private companies to control our information. I wonder if the author views that as “socialist”.

[kelnos]

> we can’t have a small number of companies from the west coast of the US serving as gatekeepers to the world’s knowledge

I've lived on the west coast of the US for 20 years now, and the prospect of this terrifies me. In a "humanity's future is bleak" sort of way.

[TaylorAlexander]

Yeah I mean, I have lived here my entire life, so 39 years. Honestly it's not like this area is uniquely terrible, though living here does give you lots to point out as problematic, but we simply should not have any single group controlling our information, whether that is silicon valley people, west coast people, Americans, etc etc.