Derek Thompson

It's like falling off a log.

It just happens.

And that's great and not something worth fighting.

So I think it's lovely that you had that experience.

It's like, it's like, it's like pill parties that like teenagers have, or like they spread out the pills to their parents.

They don't know if it's an upper or a downer.

They're just like, I'm just going to take the pill and see what happens.

I'm glad I know the plain English exists in that category.

Sam Altman.

One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model.

relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query.

But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human.

It takes, like, 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.

And not only that, it took, like, the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to, like, figure out science and whatever to produce you, and then you took whatever you... So here's what's going on.

So in this, quote, AI arms race, we are both racing...

The U.S.

and China to give birth to an ancient Sumerian super intelligent demon and your aunt Connie in Phoenix, who's a receptionist, is f***ed.

The religion scholar James Carse once wrote that there are two kinds of games in life, finite and infinite.

A finite game is played to win.

There are clear victors and losers.