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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 road
by zdragnar 10mo ago
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.
- wahnfrieden 10mo agoa distinction: the data centers have become the means of production, unlike clothing from a store
- zdragnar 10mo agoHow is that distinct from any of my other examples which listed factories? Very few factories in the US are publicly owned; citing data centers as places of production merely furthers the argument that they should remain private.
- reverserdev 10mo agoLibraries 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.