In 2021 for a job interview I wrote a policy memo describing how the government could take equity stakes in AGI companies as a way to spread the benefit of AGI
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Users criticized the policy memo proposing government equity stakes in AGI companies because they believe shares would end up with middlemen instead of being allocated directly to Americans.
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Chris Painter@ChrisPainterYup
(This is obviously not me endorsing this now, I haven't even re-read it)
I also wrote this blog post about it, which I made a funny meme for: https://chrispainter.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/42264912/share-center?alreadyPublished=true
Chris Painter@ChrisPainterYup
In 2021 for a job interview I wrote a policy memo describing how the government could take equity stakes in AGI companies as a way to spread the benefit of AGI
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Chris Painter@ChrisPainterYup
I also in 2021 wrote a really bad piece about the idea of fully autonomous corporations: https://www.kernelmag.io/1/unstoppable-mechanisms
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Steve Martin@RighttoTryGuy
@ChrisPainterYup Far better to just allocate the shares to Americans directly IMO.
You give it to the government then it's going to go to middlemen and fraudsters.
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Chris Painter@ChrisPainterYup
@RighttoTryGuy I think that's what I advocated for, don't remember
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Mike Cottone@M_Cottone
@ChrisPainterYup Did you get the job?
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Steve Martin@RighttoTryGuy
@ChrisPainterYup at least in the screenshot it's 'either', i'm just saying i think direct distributions a la trump accounts are better
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