Glad you brought that up. I will admit I do have a strong sense of disgust toward the current AI regime, but for other reasons I won't get into here. Many of us presumably got into AGI because we know about the astronomical benefits in the best case scenario, or because we want to do what we can to prevent the worst case scenario. Some of us, myself included, were under the delusion that AI would reduce the corruption and evils that we all know to be associated with "the regime". Unfortunately, it feels like AI has benefitted "the regime" more than it has benefitted the everyman, at least so far. You generally hear about success stories more than failure stories, which tend to be suppressed by the algorithm, as social media oligarchs are also AI oligarchs.
What I don't understand, is why more people aren't talking about it. Since they aren't, it makes me feel like perhaps it is *I* who has gone crazy. On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 11:29 PM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote: > Consider AI-platform leadership dev as an example. It's become an exclusive > club with few new members. Associates (researchers like us) get to play in > the secondary agentic pen, worker bees feeding the ever-larger hive. > > Show me truly-independent funders and researchers, not connected to or in > retro-beneficial relationship with the hive network, and I'll applaud the > emergence of real asymmetry and progress. > > With AI, centralization has become the norm, and the symmetrical growth > inhibitor. > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T906c878e4ba411be-Mb2d98f51baae3e8fc19c0f5e Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
