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No additional tax is needed, instead just do fork them once they reached certain level. So, basically split each company once it overgrowth certain level of its revenue. This will allow more automation split more equally among more people. Basically, strong AI is a "one-man company" dream. Just do whatever needed to allow equal access to AI by every member of your society, and make founding new businesses quick and easy.

Shouldn't first CFIUS oversee this takeover?

Democracy, personal freedoms, and rule of law are things that matter, but I am afraid we cannot get back to them quickly without significant efforts. We need first to get back to sanity. In authoritarian society AI is a tool of control, do we want it to be like that?


What's the purpose to have access to smart assistants if it doesn't result in improving your basic needs, not improving your quality of life? Who is spending now? Only high income households, while majority is struggling with high utility bills and grocery prices - very basic needs.


How about the act of buying itself? Here where I live, you need to pay 12% on top of the home price simply for taxes and notary service. IMO it's one of the biggest obstacles and why most Swiss people prefer to rent.


Switzerland is a bit different from the US. From what I understand, property ownership entails paying the imputed rental value in taxes, which makes property ownership much less desirable. In the US, mortgage interest is tax deductible up to a certain limit, property taxes are deductible, and there's an amount of capital gains that's excluded from taxation when selling one's primary residence. Compared to other places in the world, the benefits of property ownership are pretty bonkers.


Wow that's quite unreasonable. In the UK it's not the case, there's some amounts to be paid if the property is in higher ranges of price, but there is a tier where that's zero.


Today I made like a 100 of merge request reviews, manually inspecting all the diffs, and approving those I evaluated as valid needed contributions. I wonder if agents can help with similar workflows. It requires deep kind of knowledge of project's goals, ability to respect all the constraints and planning. But I'm certain it's doable.


Yes, except they are monopolist, right? It's basically not optional choice.


Technically dominating a market by virtue of best product (or only available) is legal too.

If you can achieve that without anti competitive behaviour then being a monopolist is fine. Legally anyway

Whether this circular thing counts as such behaviour - don’t know but doubt it


Maybe because as from another comment: "Firefox is an antitrust litigation sponge". They also absorb some useful users feedback. But do they have a real intention to increase market share (which could be done easily)? They are well paid - see in other comments how much its CEO is earning. So, "antitrust litigation sponge" sounds plausible?


Who else? I wonder what other companies play such role?


And especially when we mix different categories. Like saying about any infinity as about an object is misleading, because it's rather a process


Infinities (transfinite cardinals) in the sense used by the article are absolutely objects. We’re not talking about infinite sums or other sequences and their limits. (And limits aren’t really “processes” either – the limit of the sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, … is exactly 1, as a well-known example which nonetheless is controversial among people who don’t know what limits are.)


Sure, if you accept reifying concepts into objects as valid. But that is a gateway to misery.


What's the difference? How is the concept of a transfinite cardinal less of an object than, say, the concept of a set? Or a real number? All are well enough defined that you can do useful math with them, and that's really all that matters.


Object in OOP ?


Mathematical objects, like numbers, sets, matrices, functions, …


I can think of N as a process in a sense, because I can keep adding a number. But I can't think of R as a process like this, specifically because there is no surjective mapping from N to R.

How would you think of R as a process?


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