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zdragnarlast Tuesday at 10:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

There are arguments aplenty that schooling and a minimum amount of healthcare are public goods, as are roads built on public land (the government owns most roads after all).

What is the justification for considering data centers capable of running LLMs to be a public good?

There are many counter examples of things many people use but are still private. Clothing stores, restaurants and grocery stores, farms, home appliance factories, cell phone factories, laundromats and more.


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reverserdevlast Tuesday at 11:45 PM

Libraries with books are likely considered public goods right?

Why not an LLM datacenter if it also offers information? You could say it's the public library of the future maybe.

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wahnfriedenlast Tuesday at 11:08 PM

a distinction: the data centers have become the means of production, unlike clothing from a store

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