I'm tempted to be cynical about this, especially since me and Garry Tan really don't seem to have the same political alignment, but I'm honestly pretty glad this happened. The tech community (outside of big tech) ought to be more politically active rather than complain when senile politicians get behind a law that doesn't make sense. I want to say there are about as many software developers in the US as there are farmers, and yet the latter has enormous political power, while we have virtually none. I mean, imagine if we could get the federal government to subsidize us in the same way it subsidizes corn farmers.
Don't get me wrong, I kind of fear what laws and legislation a tech voting bloc would pass, but I'm also optimistic that we could push forward some genuinely progressive legislation as well. Maybe we could pass laws that encourage more housing development. Perhaps some bureaucratic reforms similar to the ones that occurred in Estonia, the kind that result in major cost reductions without any loss in quality of service. Universal healthcare? Those slightly strange policy ideas we like to talk about that are clearly progressive, even "socialist", but are also palatable to libertarians?
Mixed feelings about lobby for open source AI, but nonetheless, glad it happened. Hope to see more of it.
Don't get me wrong, I kind of fear what laws and legislation a tech voting bloc would pass, but I'm also optimistic that we could push forward some genuinely progressive legislation as well. Maybe we could pass laws that encourage more housing development. Perhaps some bureaucratic reforms similar to the ones that occurred in Estonia, the kind that result in major cost reductions without any loss in quality of service. Universal healthcare? Those slightly strange policy ideas we like to talk about that are clearly progressive, even "socialist", but are also palatable to libertarians?
Mixed feelings about lobby for open source AI, but nonetheless, glad it happened. Hope to see more of it.