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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

396 points · 457 comments · nmeagent

  1. beej71 · · focus · HN ↗
    "Let us build this data center in your back yard and in return you'll get..."

    Conspiracies aside, this sentence still needs to be satisfactorily completed for people to buy in. Because right now people know the best case is they'll get nothing.

    1. ipdashc · · focus · HN ↗
      This is a silly standard and the reason why people make fun of NIMBYism. By this logic we shouldn't build anything at all unless it immediately benefits the people living next to it. (And I don't like how much power DCs are using either, but that should be the argument, not "it doesn't benefit me personally so don't build it".)
      1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
        Correct, we shouldn't.
        1. hardbass · · focus · HN ↗
          If people like that have their way private property would effectively cease existing.
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