Zuck on Hot Mic Tells Trump He Wasnt Sure How Much to Promise to Spend in the Us
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Mark Zuckerberg is caught on a hot mic being uncertain about how much to promise to spend on AI in the US, sparking discussion about his leadership style.
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It makes me wonder, some people do seem to rise to prominence by being serious principled people, but it seems fewer and farther between recently, and it’s amazing to think the extent to which values I was dissuaded from as a kid are the key to success.
It’s also - maybe this is part of the lifecycle of all businesses, but it’s wild when thinking of why capitalism is “good” that people have envisioned self-interest in this way which causes people to pull apart in a productively competitive tension, and not self interest as being “manipulate the government until you win” in this morass of toxic re-inforcement.
It really just makes me laugh. Five years ago half this site acted like DOJ cases against FAANG was surefire economic suicide. Now we're staring down one of the most corrupt admins since Tricky Dick, suffocating the economy with tariffs to help stabilize our poor megacorps. Can't have a competitive economy if you're not bailing out your industry leaders, can you?
It also seems to confirm that businesses like Meta, Apple and Google are nationally-integrated to the point that competition isn't even desirable to the fed. I won't speculate on the ramifications for international surveillance, but it does reinforce what we already know about lawful intercept and Apple/Google's crackdowns on user freedom.
The American tech industry's greatest weakness is the inability to call out a bad idea when they see it. China yoked us like an ox.