All you have to do as a CEO is shut the fuck up and let your product do the talking. The less I hear about your shit views the more likely I am to stay with your product.

I’m all in on solar for most places.

Sure it uses a bit more land, but it makes no noise, no pollution, there’s zero risk of an accident, no targets for terrorism and your grid isn’t completely shut down if it is somehow turned offline.

You don’t depend on others for your own resilience. No need for oil, gas or uranium.

Unless you live in the high northern latitudes, there is almost no reason to not be building a durable and resilient battery-renewable grid

I genuinely see more ways that AI can kill us than save us now.

Libraries quite often have book scanners.

invest in a tripod for a camera. Point it at the stage, press film. Sit down, watch the event and let the camera manage itself.

As is everyone?

When I spoke about European countries under socialism I meant East Germany (Stasi), USSR (KGB), Czechoslovakia (StB), Hungary (AVH), etc.

None of these countries were capitalist at the time and maintained gigantic security services to spy on the entire population.

Do you not think that a hypothetical state without Capitalism could also generate an automated surveillance state? It feels to me to be less tied to the market system and more to authoritarianism. I would simply point to the fact that many European nations under socialism did have very strong secret police spying on the public under the pretext of protection from counter-revolution, which is not really any different to the countries under capitalism today, minus the technology.

Needs to be that everyone agrees at once, otherwise the Palantirs of the world will keep going.

Anthropic is projecting a half a billion dollars profit this quarter

What’s the joke

AI is getting cheaper every year and the output is becoming better. Look at token prices. The so called frontier models are not that far ahead of the open source models that you or I can run essentially for free, either.

The reality is that you can sit down and automate significant tasks with AI in an afternoon, today. I work in an industry where a significant amount of time is spent auditing and QAing output. A properly trained skill for Claude is able to do the same QA task to 90% of my (senior) level in 2% of the time. Similarly, it is able to coach the junior staff to produce work that is a much higher level than would be otherwise expected of them, reducing the actual audit length on that side too.

I am hugely positive for the future of AI. I am hugely negative about what it means for people.

Companies are competing for the same market share.

As an example, what are you going to do with four times more accountants than the total market needs? There are only a limited number of companies to do the accounts for. If one accountant can do four times the work as before, he might be able to expand. If every accountant can do four times the work as before, they cannot all expand. On a company level, why would you keep all the staff doing only 25% of the work as before? Their labour has been significantly reduced in value.

In my view it is. It’s a race to the bottom. What is a company going to do when they are in a competition with other firms that have less staff but the same output (i.e., a much lower cost base)? The options are either to go out of business or to restructure to the market reality. This is a problem that needs to be solved at the government level.

The pretty displays of food are essentially a rounding error. The majority of food waste is caused through 1. crop spoilage, 2. supply chain inefficiency, 3. consumer overbuying.

If you ignore societies where there was starvation, you will always see that there is significant food waste. You mention capitalism as being a big cause of food waste, but millions of tons were also wasted in communist countries for reasons 1 and 2 above.