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  • xAI is now (or will very soon be) part of SpaceX.

    They physically own massive ‘Colossus’ datacenters with tons of GPUs.

    As to leasing vs owning, I already addressed that.

    If you are the government and you are half of the shareholders, you can pressure your own AI company, or the companies from whom your AI company leases GPUs from to be more honest and transparent regarding accounting methodologies.

    Bernie is not proposing that any taxpayer money be put toward this at all.

    The only actual expense here would be the minute cost of simply hiring some people to run and manage the sovereign wealth fund. Miniscule in comparison to the potential equity value of $$$s being managed. Think something like the administrative cost of running say, the SEC or FTC, in comparison to the amount of money moving around that they can affect.

    He is proposing the government simply half nationalize these companies, as Trump not long ago did with TikTok.

    If the government is half of every US based AI company’s board, they can also very effectively pressure them to make the models open source.

    Not sure if you don’t understand the concept of nationalization, but basically, thats when the government looks at something and says ‘i own this now, because I say so’.

    Theres no payment. Its… why I use the word ‘seize’.

    Same way Marx argued that workers should ‘seize’ the means of production: Just take them.





  • If OpenAI fails, and the government owns half of it…

    The assets and power the government acquired for no monetary cost simply becomes zero.

    The other part of simply seizing half the shares is that the government (presumably a number of ministers/officials in charge of the new sovereign wealth fund) now has half the voting power of the entire board.

    That is a pretty direct way to wield influence as to the decisions the company can make, how the CEO can behave.

    You want maybe the accounting to actually deprecate the GPUs they have or lease over a realistic timeframe, instead of a totally bullshit one?

    Half of your shareholders now demand this.

    C Suite refuse to comply?

    Begin the process of firing them.




  • You didn’t read the article, or you didn’t understand it.

    The US Govt would not pay a cent for the shares of these companies.

    It would simply seize them, half-nationalize them.

    That… that is ‘socialism’, a form of it, that’s the government deciding that wealthy private equity/stock owners actually don’t own that stuff, because ‘we are the government and this is ours now.’

    This is… is a form of what the US has previously used the CIA to overthrow a number of other country’s governments for, when they did something like this.



  • Wait.

    Remove?

    … How? From what?

    What does that even mean?

    … the point of this is to essentially half nationalize the companies.

    No public money would be used to purchase these assets / equity shares. The government would simply seize them.

    Is this a perfect solution? Fuck no.

    Is it significantly better than the public having 0 effective say in what huge megacorps do? The public bearing the socialized costs of profilgate profit maximization of AI companies, the gains all being funnelled upward toward the already wealthy to super to hyper to uber wealthy?

    Uh probably almost certainly yes.


    Specifically, Sanders proposes a one-time transfer of 50 percent of equity from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to the government. The idea: since AI is built on the accumulated knowledge, creativity, conversations, and labor of the American people — typically without permission or payment — the American people deserve a cut of the profits.

    This is not ‘public/government money buys out half the equity of AI companies’.

    This is ‘we are the government and we own half of you now, because we say so, fuck you’.

    The fund would acquire half the stock of the largest AI companies in the country through a mandated equity transfer — Sanders is explicit that this is not a profits tax. The government would then hold voting shares and receive equal board representation at each company, giving it formal power to block decisions deemed harmful to the public.

    It is literally ‘we own half your equity now, and have half the voting rights on your board(s)’.


    So basically that would be something like doing a stock split.

    In a standard stock split, private stock holders who used to own one share, now they own two shares of half the original share’s value. 2 * 1/2 = 1.

    But with this, this is more like the private stock owners… the split happens, they still own the one share, but its value has been halved, and now the US government owns the other share.

    2 * 1/2 = 1/2 {government/public} + 1/2 {private stock holders}

    Then, those stocks owned by the US government get put into essentially a new government organization that would manage those stocks snd finances, as a soveriegn wealth fund.

    The top of the K, the wealthiest 10% to 1% that own 90% or whatever of all stocks/equities… they all get a 50% haircut on their AI holdings.

    And the proceeds get put toward the people.

    Its not technically a wealth tax per se, but it accomplishes a similar thing, in a targeted and managed way.


    Anyone who thinks this is ‘the US government is gonna buy half the AI stocks’ is mistaken.

    That isn’t what is being proposed, ya’ll either didn’t read the article, or don’t know finance terminology.

    The latter I can at least understand, but I absolutely must explain and correct the mistake.







  • Well, the problem will be their perimeter security.

    You’d essentially be treated as a VBIED, and lit the fuck up by assault rifles and/or swarms of suicide drones.

    So… you could maybe attempt the ‘killdozer’ strategy…

    Or, you could try low visibilty / high mobility.

    Motorcycle, fuck maybe even an E-Bike, and hand made thermite charges.

    Shitty thermite is really not that hard to make.

    If you got through either AP Chem or a first year of Chem classes at Uni, and you can read the wikipedia page for thermite, you can probably figure it out. Also not that hard to figure out how to ignite it. Sparkle sparkle!

    Just melt the air vents.

    For further creativity, either wait for or stage nearby distractions.

    And then have a very thorough plan to completely fucking vanish.

    … you’d also have to, you know, gather all the required supplies for any plan, in a manner that does not raise anyone’s suspicions, and probably do some tests first.

    That’s the nearly impossible part… you will almost certainly be unexpectedly meeting with Mr. FBI during that stage.