🇩🇪🤯 SV Elversberg are the smallest team in Bundesliga history and have won their first ever match in the Bundesliga by beating Bayer Leverkusen 3-2. ✅ Their town has NO train station, NO town hall and has a population of just 13,000 people! In 2022, they were in the 4th division. The progress is incredible. 👏

Palantir's Shyam Shankar says that SV elites building AGI have a God-shaped hole in their heart that they are attempting to fill with the belief in AGI. Numerous sources have confirmed to AF Post that the AI workers at Anthropic and OpenAI have a pseudo-religious belief in their product. Follow: @AFpost

I'm asked about fusion all the time by SV bros. But I don't know any real plasma physicist who is bullish on fusion in the short run. FT: "Silicon Valley-type bullshit" Alain Bécoulet, chief scientist of the publicly funded international fusion research project ITER, says connecting a fusion power plant to the electricity grid “will never happen” within the next five to 10 years. Insiders warn that as competition for funding intensifies, companies are making overly optimistic claims about the cheapness of the electricity they hope to produce. A senior fusion executive who does not wish to be named says it is difficult to estimate costs for a technology that has never operated commercially. Some price pledges amount to companies “just making things up”, the executive says, in order to attract enough investment to continue their research — “the most Silicon Valley-type bullshit you could possibly do”.

SLAB DRAW #181# FLETCHPAL #668# just won 2024 Pokemon Japanese SV Terasta ($14) — watch the rip. Mint your FLETCHPAL to enter the next draw

I don't live in SF. Is this peak SV culture? Anthropic, a frontier lab planning an IPO that insists its technology could potentially kill all humans, hosted a cozy conversation yesterday about sci-fi with an author who writes about AI dragons and sentient yeast. (and yes, I know Jack Clark writes sci-fi for his indie newsletter)

i regularly talk to founders trying to raise vc without pedigree or yc/other tier 1 sv accelerator it feels terrible to tell them their odds of raising are close to zero next time you wonder why people are obsessed with getting into yc, this is your answer