alt Hacker News> If AI was public, we could have usage restrictions based on societal merit, as an example. Not every AI use is ... useful. All of them are costly to society.
Ok so you want people to vote for public AI usage. Like if I want to use AI for my own research, I need to first vote for it, get it approved for its "social merit".
Is this the kind of utopia you are arguing for?
Indeed, now you're getting it.
It's the only way to avoid the catastrophic power concentration issues and resource allocation issues you still haven't addressed.
It's not exactly a new concept either. All sorts of things need approval (usually ones with high resource cost and externalities, see a pattern there?), be it buildings, flight plans, oil drilling, power lines or any number of other examples.
As with some other stuff (the de minimis exception for customs comes to mind), we can of course talk about exceptions for smaller-scale personal use, but large industrial use with heavy pollution and energy use implications should be treated like any other heavy industry.
You still haven't made any case against my structural argument. You still haven't provided any evidence in favor of your viewpoint. You keep digging into hypotheticals about alternatives (at least you've stopped with the straight up strawmanning, I guess), but you've never bothered to justify the implications of the status quo you support.
Kind of funny considering how you started out by accusing others of fallacies and being morally bankrupt, mindless extremists. Maybe the shoe's on the other foot?