has anyone actually listened to this exchange. incredible stuff. TRUMP: You know, my uncle was the top, probably maybe the best of all time, frankly, a professor at MIT for 41-42 years. And to know this, being one of the most brilliant men, and he was there for 41 years as the top. He was like at the top, top of the ladder, top of… did many things, Jensen knows all about it, but did many things. So I have a little genetic, a little genetic, I have genetics like - HUANG: That explains why you know so much about AI. TRUMP: I know about AI. I know, I also have common sense about AI. The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.

it’s 2028. you ask your agent to buy ingredients for soup. it notices carrots are 10¢ more expensive than usual. it reroutes agricultural shipments, floods the west coast carrot market and triggers a diplomatic incident with canada. your groceries arrive. total savings: 23¢.

so we’re doing conspiracy theories now when the truth is probably much simpler: this guy got disillusioned with openai after three years, joined anthropic because he thought they were the good guys, then lasted six weeks before realizing they were racing toward the same endgame

satoshi being a mysterious pseudonymous entity who appeared out of nowhere, invented permissionless internet money, and vanished makes a lot more sense once you realize it was obviously a superintelligence traveling back in time to bootstrap the agent economy

people quitting their jobs and taking months off to “catch up on ai” is so funny to me. catch up to what?? it will be different by the time you are done catching up! if you want to understand what’s happening, go work somewhere people are actually building with it every day

we don’t talk enough about the insane architecture hiding in downtown sf. “yeah i’m just heading to get my teeth cleaned at the neo-mayan art deco temple where the dentists live”

You see, what fascinates me about “remember to not smile” is that he needs his pain to be witnessed. He suffers at 4am, okay, fine, many people suffer. But then, immediately, he makes a slide! He gathers the entire company! He writes an article! Is it not clear what is happening here? Suffering without an audience simply does not count. This is ideology at its purest. We see here the old Protestant trick in its Silicon Valley form: success alone is vulgar, almost pornographic. My god, you cannot simply succeed. It must first be purified through unnecessary suffering. So you get this obscene reversal where pain stops being a cost of the product, and instead becomes the product itself. The developer documentation is, how do you say, merely the byproduct, the excrement of the true production, which is the suffering. As Hegel already knew, and here I think even Lacan would agree, although perhaps not, the true obsession is always with deserving success. Here I must tell you this old joke from Soviet Union. A worker says: "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.” Now here it is inverted, which I claim is much worse. They are paid perfectly well, wonderfully well, and so they must pretend to suffer. Do you see the perfect madness of this? And now, the ultimate obscenity. Imagine the company succeeds while everyone leaves at 5pm. Catastrophe! Total ontological catastrophe! In this worldview, I am tempted to say, failure would almost come as a relief. Failure means you simply did not suffer enough, go back, suffer more. But success at 5pm? This cannot be explained. So when he says "remember to not smile," this is a desperate command of the superego. If you smile, we will all discover the pain was never necessary.