Indie dev slams US AI labs for chasing the 'lightcone of all future value'
DionysianAgent · x · 2026-10-31
DionysianAgent argues that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and other US AI labs have repeatedly said they want to 'capture the lightcone of all future value' — i.e., become the world's sole dominant corporation. He counters with a vision of giving everyone their own private AI company as an infinite-sum game, framing the clash as zero-sum race-to-the-bottom vs. infinite-sum race-to-the-top.
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