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I'd invest all the money in tech, focusing on AI companies. Look, AGI is our best for fully-automated luxury space communism (with optional homosexuality), if we don't have that, then communism ain't for me.
How likely is it for AGI to lead to communism, if achieved through corporations? I can imagine governments deciding to nationalize it, or the achieving company to become a de facto communist government. But there are other outcomes possible, and $250M isn't going to shift the needle much on which outcome is most likely regardless.
I think if your terminal goal is communism (as opposed to personal security, widespread material prosperity, etc), you'd want to do a variation of this. Invest in AI, but target a broad portfolio of research programs that aren't currently in vogue and saturated in capital, betting on the possibility that current approaches aren't sufficient. They probably are, but if they are, you can't change their trajectory much; so you assume they aren't and try to get get there first.
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Yeah, I think that if some companies invent AGI and are able to produce nearly unlimited goods or services at very little cost, then there's actually a pretty good argument to be made that the people -- acting through the government -- should seize the means of production and distribute the benefits evenly.
I mean, one of the fundamental flaws in communism is that when the government controls the means of production (1) it does a lousy job maintaining them; and (2) it disincentivizes the development of better means of production. But if the means of production can maintain and improve themselves, this is (arguably) much less of a concern.
Depends on how much "alignment" programs work out. If it's possible for the government to align AI and control it, you still end up running into public choice and Hayekian flavored failures of communism.
Can you be a little more specific about the scenarios you are envisioning here? I'm not saying you are wrong, I just would like to understand the issues you are raising.
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