Summary

George Hotz argues against the prevailing narrative that the US 'winning' AI is inherently good, questioning whose interests are actually served. Despite being someone who should theoretically celebrate the current AI boom, he finds the emerging techno-feudalist vision — particularly Elon Musk's — to be a society he wouldn't want to live in regardless of his position. He criticizes Anthropic/EA figures as fear-mongering 'cartoonish villains' recycling the same dangerous-AI marketing playbook since GPT-2, and argues the only good AI future is one where everyone has AI through hard possession, not revokable API access. He concludes that American tech companies are more likely to extract value from people than improve their lives.

Key Insight

The measure of whether AI is good for humanity isn't whether America 'wins' the race, but whether ordinary people gain hard possession of AI rather than receiving it as a revokable privilege from extractive tech monopolies.

Spicy Quotes (click to share)

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  By all accounts, I should be a neofeudalist. I should love what's happening.

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  If AI doesn't work for normal people, I don't want it and you shouldn't either.

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  The good world is where everyone has AI, and not as a revokable privilege through an API, but through hard possession.

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  IT'S LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE DOING THE SAME EXACT SHIT.

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  Pay attention to who is releasing AI to the world and who has released nothing, then think about who the good guys are.

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  As an American, is this an investment into helping you and improving your life, or figuring out how to take your job and further extract from you?

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  They aren't going to get better with more power, they are going to get worse.

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  I feel bad for the shrimp that the EAs have a plan for them.

Tone

opinionated, contrarian, irreverent