Yeah I think it's pretty obviously the AI industry trying to ban its own regulation

> Nationally, the Right to Compute movement is gaining traction. Spearheaded by the grassroots group RightToCompute.ai, the campaign argues that computation — like speech and property — is a fundamental human right. “A computer is an extension of the human capacity to think,” the organization states.

▲ staplers 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

  computation — like speech and property — is a fundamental human right

Computation however requires a vast supply chain where certain middlemen have a near monopoly on distribution of said "fundamental right". The incentives for lobbyists seems clear.

I don't necessarily disagree with the idea, but until profit is shared with taxpayers, this is a one-way transaction of taxpayers bankrolling AI companies.

	▲	terminalshort an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I find your claim that there is a monopoly on computing laughable. No other technology has improved in quality or dropped in price as much as computers over the last 40 years. If this what you get from a monopoly, then we need more monopolies.

▲ dismalaf 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Regulation is just regulatory capture by incumbents and also a national security risk.

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lucianbr an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Looks like this one might be while in general the rule does not hold. Good regulations exist, and so do bad ones. Arguments without nuance often do more harm than good to your side.

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hdgvhicv 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You argue that food safety tellregialtikns are just regularity capture?

	▲	jfengel 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Aggravatingly, some of it is. The organic food regulations are impossible for the small farmers who invented the idea. Only mega corps can do it, and their definition is not much better (if at all) than industrial farms. It's still way better than Upton Sinclair's time. But it would be nice if the FDA and USDA were run by people who eat rather than sell food.
	▲	dismalaf 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		To start a restaurant where I live it's $50k in fees and mandatory paperwork before you can even get a construction permit. Alot of it is, yes. And none of it prevents bad food handling practices by minimum wage staff.