Users are optimistic that open AI weights democratize the means of production because this lets workers spin up their own factories and progress from selling labor to becoming shareholders.
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5/ The worker doesn't need to seize the factory anymore. He can spin one up. Marx had a "reserve army" of the unemployed. What's assembling instead is a Reserve Army of Founders. (My best guess at what Marx would do in 2026: download the weights and get Engels to pay for the laptop.)
4/ AI doesn't remove work. It removes having to sell your labor. Humanity's long, unfinished promotion: slaves → serfs → salaried — and now, shareholders.
6/ Here's how the argument fails: if open models stop tracking the frontier, concentration wins after all. Watch that gap — it's the most political number in tech. And the anger at capitalism? It's aimed at something real. That's essay two, next week. 🔗 https://x.com/vijaypande/status/2077029547791261829
3/ "But frontier models cost billions to train." True — and it misses where the leverage lives. Building a power plant is expensive. Plugging in is not. The moat protects the plant. The revolution is at the other end of the wall socket.
5/ The worker doesn't need to seize the factory anymore. He can spin one up. Marx had a "reserve army" of the unemployed. What's assembling instead is a Reserve Army of Founders. (My best guess at what Marx would do in 2026: download the weights and get Engels to pay for the laptop.)
4/ AI doesn't remove work. It removes having to sell your labor. Humanity's long, unfinished promotion: slaves → serfs → salaried — and now, shareholders.
6/ Here's how the argument fails: if open models stop tracking the frontier, concentration wins after all. Watch that gap — it's the most political number in tech. And the anger at capitalism? It's aimed at something real. That's essay two, next week. 🔗 https://x.com/vijaypande/status/2077029547791261829
3/ "But frontier models cost billions to train." True — and it misses where the leverage lives. Building a power plant is expensive. Plugging in is not. The moat protects the plant. The revolution is at the other end of the wall socket.
Users are optimistic that open AI weights democratize the means of production because this lets workers spin up their own factories and progress from selling labor to becoming shareholders.
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