Derek Thompson

with billionaires.

It happens with CEOs.

It happens with any outgroup.

It can happen with other ethnicities.

Sometimes when we're trying to describe an outgroup, we describe them as a homogeneous thing.

And then the more you learn about that outgroup, the more you realize how much heterogeneity exists inside of it.

So it's one thing to easily say, billionaires want X, tech CEOs want X.

But if you know Sam Altman and Dario Amadei, if you know their history, if you know that Dario Amadei left OpenAI in order to start Anthropic, if you know that they hate each other to the extent that there was recently a photo op on a stage in India of AI CEOs sort of holding each other's hands, and Sam and Dario were right next to each other, and their hands were just up like this, not making contact with each other.

These are really, really different people.

And I do think they want different things.

Does Sam like to be touched?

I'm not going to do a whole Zapruder film thing on like exactly who is touching Sam.

I think the bottom line here is that in trying to describe like what do the artificial intelligence architects want from this technology, I think it's hard to say for a couple of reasons.

One, some of them deliberately started their companies in opposition to companies that existed.

They want to make money.

They want to make money and they feel like Donald Trump is a counterparty that they can negotiate with.

And the Biden administration was a group of people they couldn't negotiate with.

I think that's as parsimonious an answer as I can possibly give.

I don't think that the entire tech right necessarily feels like Donald Trump really is as great as they let on.

I think that in private conversations that, you know, are not being, you know, live tweeted.