AI Governance Researcher at Convergence Analysis—leading a research program for evaluating governance recommendations.
Previously one of the first engineers at Alchemy, a crypto startup now with a $10.2 billion valuation.
Before that, I was a hardware / interaction researcher at Google Glass, responsible for the design and engineering of the first real-time translation feature for earbuds on the Pixel Buds.
I’d agree—for many of these individual policy levers (esp. the monitoring & oversight mechanisms), “soft nationalization” wouldn’t be the best term to describe them!
Part of our linguistic struggle here is that we’re attempting to map the entire spectrum of gov. involvement and slap an overarching label on it. “Soft nationalization” gets the general point across, but definitely breaks down on a case-by-case basis.
Zero disagreements to this comment here! The idea of an economic social contract is orders of magnitude more complicated (and yes, ugly and violent) than what I’m describing here. There have definitely been many eras of massive inequality and feudalism / lack of power which complicate this narrative.
I can’t claim to be an expert on these topics, or to do them justice in a post like this! And perhaps in future writing of this style I can gesture to or mention the complicated nature of the historical parallels rather than leaving them without context.