[jpk]

"Communal ownership of the means of production" evokes an image of a hippy co-op trying to buy pallets of GPUs, or something, which is probably why it sounds unattainable. But if you reorient that to something more along the lines of, "the Mullvad of hosted llama.cpp", then it actually doesn't seem that far out of reach.

[underlipton]

There's also the, "Burn down anything which isn't owned by a cooperative or human-scale municipality," option/component, where "burn" means anything from, "Deny construction permits," to, "All you had to do was pay us enough to live."

Not saying that anyone SHOULD do it. Just that you would kind of need both, for the non-authoritarian AI future: block the corporate strong-arm, but also build out your own infra because other nation-states are certainly going to do it and use that capability to try to muscle-in themselves.

[antonvs]

> "Communal ownership of the means of production" evokes an image of a hippy co-op trying to buy pallets of GPUs

The quote is a direct reference to a core tenet of Marxist theory, socialism, and communism.

Historically, communal ownership at scale has almost always been implemented via a centralized state, which has tended to gravitate towards authoritarianism. The Soviet Union and East Germany, and many other countries along those lines, didn't really fit the "hippy co-op" image very well.