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>>tedsan+(OP)
Apart from my general queasiness about the whole AGI scaling business and the power concentration that comes with it, these are the exact four people/entities that I would not want to be at the tip of said power concentration.

>>mppm+821
Just Ellison alone brings unwelcome feeling of having Oracle craziness forced down our collective throats, but I share your concern about the unholy alliance generated in front of us.

>>A4ET8a+gm1
My immediate reaction to the announcement was one of these is not like the others. OpenAI, a couple of big investment funds, Microsoft, Nvidia, and...............Oracle?

>>DebtDe+0B1
There is a certain reason that last weeks everybody and their grandma is simping for Trump. Nobody would want to be on his bad side right now. Moreover, we hear here and there that Trump "keeps his promises". A lot of the promises we do not know about and we may never will. These people did not spend money supporting his campaign for nothing. In other places and eras this would have been called corruption, now it is called "keeping his promises".

>>freeho+HD1
> There is a certain reason that last weeks everybody and their grandma is simping for Trump. Nobody would want to be on his bad side

It's worth keeping in mind how extremely unfriendly to tech the last admin was. At this point, it's basically proven in court that emails of the form "please deboost person x or else" were send, and there's probably plenty more we don't know about.

Combine that with the troubles in Europe which Biden's administration was extremely unwilling to help with, the obstacles thrown in the way of major energy buildouts, which are needed for AI... one would have to be stupid to be a tech CEO and not simp for Trump.

Tech has been extremely Democratic for many years. The Democrats have utterly alienated tech, and now they reap the consequences.

>>miki12+aL1
the troubles in Europe

Nice euphemism for giving people autonomy in their data and privacy.

Most of there companies are so large that they cannot really fail anymore. At this point it has very little to do with protecting themselves, more with making them more powerful than governments. JD Vance are said that the US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate X [1]. Oligarchs have fully infiltrated the US government and are trying to do the same to other countries.

I disagree with the grandparent. They don't support Trump because they do not want to be on his bad side (well, at least not only that), they support Trump because they see the opportunity to suppress regulation worldwide and become more powerful than governments.

We just keep making excuses (fiduciary duties, he just doesn't know how to wave his arm because he's an autist [2]). Why not just call it what it is?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2] Which is pretty offensive to people on the spectrum.

>>microt+bQ1
I do agree that big part of why they support Trump is for anti-regulation reasons. But, it is also a fact that Trump is one of them, a businessman, not a politician. With Trump they can now discuss more business and less policies. There is a certain dealing of business right now that seems not at all transparent. And in this, the amount of public simping is really weird to what usually happens, everybody praising Trump even before he was taking office, and even tiktok, "coming out" as whatever etc.

Oligarchs want less regulation, but they also want these beefy government contracts. They want weaker government to regulate them and stronger government to protect them and bully other countries. Way I see it, what they actually want is control of the government, and with Trump they have it (more than before).

>>freeho+SU1
That person is much more of a politician than a businessman.