Its a government department signalling who's boss.

The end game is nationalisation lmao. How people cant see this is mad...

It wouldnt be the first time in history a govt has taken into their hands an organisation that is deemed too powerful.

if the government is owned by corporations via the stock markets than governments taking over organisations is privatization via a majority shareholdership and not nationalization.

Are you seriously this delusional? THe leaders of tech firms operate at the behest of Trump. Not the other way round.

Who funds those tech firms? It's not Trump. His power is mostly theater to his constituents and those who funded Trump: spoiler: he's not entirely self funded, and some of his funding is at least from others so he's conflicted in his self interests to others. We call this a classic conflict of interest.

How did Trump get where he is? Who was and is his supply chain? Who made him? Who did he 'use' and 'need' to 'build himself'?

Yeah I can see that. Though the separation between "govenrment" and "corporation" is pretty thin already. So nationalization or corporitization, whatever you want to call it, its just a label for rich and powerful people concentrating power and deriving benefits.

Who cares who owns the data center? The govt can send in the army and nationalise it... Lol as if you really believe that a bunch of people will actually control everything and the govt wont?

Think harder.

The US govt is already useless in constrast with the ruling corporations. Congress can't get anything done. What makes you think they could or would do anything to the slave owners who pay them?

> Who cares who owns the data center? The govt can send in the army and nationalise it

Do you think the government is going to react with mass nationalisation of private companies to fight wealth inequality? What would the threshold be? The top 1% owning half of everything? 70%? I share no such optimism. The wealthy already have their interests much better represented in politics than their share of votes should allow (and this is a really difficult problem to tackle!), this is only gonna get worse and any government action against rich people interests is going to be increasingly difficult to trigger and sustain.

Even if such mass nationalisation happened, why would you expect a better final outcome than every attempt at communism got (while doing the same thing): Namely, government just splitting up those spoils with their cronies?

of course they can, but that's a process, and a reactive one at that.

the government won't control uptime, ever.

The point youre making is important - these geeks have no clue where things will land. The only person Ive seen involved in technology that was pretty good at predicting was Steve Jobs. But he wasnt really a geek, more of a hippie - meaning he had an understanding of people and society. Amodei definitely does not.

The people who take him at his word are comical. Just comical.

Like, he claimed that basically all of software engineering would have been automated by now.

While I believe he's a little more sincere than Musk, that's not really saying much.