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🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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people are sleeping on the last part of his comment:

"the best thing to me, throughout all the history of capitalism or innovation or whatever you want is to just flood the market"

JDAM all the data centers. right now. **urgently**

Cory Doctorow, Chris Hayes, and David Roberts: why do people hate AI i can't figure it out

the AI companies: we are going to take away your ability to think and sell it back to you, that's our plan, literally and explicitly, we are saying it from a stage.

@peter This sounds like the opposite of Cory Doctorow. This Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/?
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@jonne @peter

Yeah, I was going to say... I'm not aware of Cory ever saying anything like that about AI. I'm pretty sure he knows exactly what's happening.

@malcircuit @jonne @peter he got weirdly defensive and had some bad arguments against a strawman he made up in this post https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback
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