[ExI] andreesen on ai

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> >…Funding those who go along, paired with legal hurdles for those who
> don't (and are large enough to target, which won't affect most of the small
> operations)…
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> Sure but how does the government have any say in any of this?  I can’t
> imagine a law being passed which has specifications on artificial
> intelligence.
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1) Funding is not a law.  The government can absolutely decide to fund
certain projects and not fund competitors'.

2) Regulatory decisions are not laws.  The government can engage in
selective enforcement, which may or may not be illegal but this matters not
to those with no resources to take them to court, or drag their feet on
approving certain efforts while rubber stamping certain others so the
latter can eat up the market while the former have to wait around.

Those are but some of the more obvious not-a-law tools the government has.
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