I sound conspiratorial - but everything happening in the US around AI + Crypto has the fingerprints of David Sacks and Theil on it. You can hear them talk about these things and then they happen.

Sacks has talked extensively about the US government having stakes in tech companies for months and months on the All In pod.

It seems like saw Russian Oligarchs and instead of being morally repulsed they thought "hmm that is quite nice, I would like that"

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I_am_tiberius a day ago | parent | next [-]

Russian Oligarchy is actually the best comparison there is.

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fuzzfactor a day ago | parent [-]

There's a huge difference between being shaken down highway robbery style "versus" pre-emptively paying the toll in advance for safe passage.

I guess.

It may not be obvious but isn't one unethical and the other not so much?

For some operators they may highly prefer circumstances where it's impossible to tell the difference though.

	▲	drtz a day ago \| parent [-]
		> There's a huge difference between being shaken down highway robbery style "versus" pre-emptively paying the toll in advance for safe passage. We've seen the shakedown of Anthropic out in the open. It's reasonable to assume that Sam Altman has seen it as well.

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throw1234567891 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> It seems like saw Russian Oligarchs and instead of being morally repulsed they thought "hmm that is quite nice, I would like that"

Trump was saying that for years. He admires Putin. And you guys have still elected him.