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imperialism
The New Division of the World
Artificial intelligence has become an imperialist struggle over chips, energy, models, surveillance and the right to switch off other people’s machines. The United States administers access, China lowers the cost of the frontier, Europe subsidises its dependence and far-right capital enters the military apparatus.
artificial intelligence
The CUDA toll
Nvidia dominates AI compute because it sells a complete machine: processors, networking, libraries and years of other people’s work turned into dependence. Its accounts let us measure that power and rule out a magic rent figure.
socialist planning
One million GPU hours
A public compute budget forces decisions about which needs deserve electricity, machines and labour. The exercise exposes the political choices that govern a socialist allocation procedure.
socialist planning
Cybersyn without nostalgia
Chile put a telex network to work during an employers’ strike; the Soviet Union proposed OGAS and produced hundreds of incompatible systems. Political control over information explains their different results.
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