Anjney Midha
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And instead we got tweets and not flying cars.
You know, when I was at Stanford,
I got the chance as an undergrad, I had the chance to take Peter Thiel's class that zero to one.
And he was, you know, his whole moniker was we wanted flying cars and we got, you know, 140 characters, 240 characters.
Thank you.
And now I'm back at Stanford teaching CS 153, which is the largest class on campus.
It's called AI Coachella.
We've got thousands of people following along.
And, and,
It's got frontier systems because it's all possible now.
We're literally in our lifetime.
We're going to have flying cars.
We're going to have room temperature superconductors.
We are going to solve cancer.
We just want to do it in a way that's stable, predictable.
We want to skip all the boom and bust cycles.
And the way to do that is to lead by example and say, hey, guys, the public benefit is to provide goods and services that are utilities and make sure that we don't like.
Let's be the adults in the room and not do the stuff where we tried to be robber bands and monopolists and got greedy along the way.
And so that's the substantive answer.
The Vibes answer is, look, I don't want to get sued by shareholders for whom it's not legible why I'm giving away billions of dollars of compute at cost to portfolio companies, right?