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_8L34K • today at 1:58 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

"Meta is claiming that the costly A.I. computer chips it buys from companies, including Nvidia, are entitled to a taxpayer-provided discount as part of the experiment."

Why do these schemes always involves these private companies siphoning money from taxpayers? It's "communism" (or whatever) to subsidize public health, yet we are expected to subsidize experimental AI companies.


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treis • today at 2:01 PM

We aren't expected to. We (or our elected representatives) passed a law saying that experimental spending gets tax breaks. And I don't really see an argument that LLMs aren't in an experimental phase.

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philipallstar • today at 2:09 PM

No one is siphoning money from taxpayers. Paying less tax legally is not taking any money from you.

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