The Sane AI Slow Proposal
The author proposes capping any company at 10 percent of server-grade GPUs, with progressive taxes on excess, to prevent AI monopolies, preserve competition, and force algorithmic progress rather than compute brute force.
The author proposes capping any company at 10 percent of server-grade GPUs, with progressive taxes on excess, to prevent AI monopolies, preserve competition, and force algorithmic progress rather than compute brute force.
Argues ASML’s monopoly on EUV chipmaking machines and export controls choke global progress, and calls for essential semiconductor technology to be opened so all countries can build their own.
Argues protesters should oppose data centers not for taxes, water, or noise, but because closed models fence off public resources and concentrate control over essential compute infrastructure.
Claims AI is as fundamental as electricity and the internet, so it must stay free from government regulation and monopolistic companies whose censorship would corrupt a tool that extends human thought and independence.
Argues that businesses should prefer open models over closed APIs, weighing refusals, outages, terms-of-service changes, and data harvesting against benchmarks, and calls for self-hosting, fine-tuning, and control of runtime parameters.
Argues that OpenAI and Anthropic are the most dangerous companies because their AI monopoly, ideological agenda, and alliance with government threaten to entrench a single closed vision of the technology over everyone.