This is for now a competitive market, and these quotas a pretty generous for what one license is marketed to be used for.
It would be funny if we had a law for an AI safeword - the AI must respond to a given phrase with a given response. This should be doable for the mainstream cloud-based AI that most people use, not because an AI can be shown to do anything reliably by itself, but because a wrapper could be put around it to ensure that's what it does.
Of course, all bets are off for self-hosted AI, or whoever has no reason to comply with US government rules.
What it makes me wonder is where the smart money is going. Let's say somebody is so "smart" they can consistently beat the market (perhaps because they have a stream of insider information from a few difference sources). Do they play the normal market but with outsized performance? Do they instead form a private equity firm? Or...?
Intuitively it seems like the very wealthy might have a new private financial playground now that the open market so democratic.
The problem is that Linux isn't 'superior.' Does it do some things better? Sure. Maybe a lot of things.
The vast majority of computer users simply *don't care.* Nor do they need to.
Windows works well enough, it does anything almost anybody wants 'a computer' to do, and you don't need to put too much thought into it.
It's really hard to say how much a winner has 'produced' compared to the alternative future in which they didn't exist. Bezos worked long and hard, without profits for many years, to bring Amazon about. He succeeded and a lot of us choose to buy a lot of stuff from Amazon all the time. What if he had not. None of the other online retailers would have grown to fill that niche? Perhaps not to the same degree, since arguably that is why Amazon beat them. But to what degree would that hypothetical competitor have fallen short? Certainly their value would be a large fraction of what Amazon's now is. Yet our system rewards the winner as if all that wealth simply wouldn't have been created... not proportional to merit or effort, but "winner takes all."
I live in a US state that is poor but gets most of what it does from oil money. I applaud the transition to renewables but it don't see how the state government will get by.
From the left: "Study finds tonnage estimates overstated in greenwashing conspiracy!!"
It is just impossible to make a CO2 regime that won't immediately be pilloried from the right and left.
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