Derek Thompson

And 72 hours later, so embarrassed by the fact that for no seeming good reason, they've attacked women's health, HHS backtracks. Okay, so far, so good, you could say. The media served as a watchdog and saved this all-powerful program.

But then, 24 hours later, RFK comes out, and now, with those cuts reversed, he accuses the New York Times of lying about the original cut, now that they've reversed the cut. This is the level of dishonesty, right? and the level of lack of care that you have to assume is being applied to every single science cut across the system, right?

But then, 24 hours later, RFK comes out, and now, with those cuts reversed, he accuses the New York Times of lying about the original cut, now that they've reversed the cut. This is the level of dishonesty, right? and the level of lack of care that you have to assume is being applied to every single science cut across the system, right?

But then, 24 hours later, RFK comes out, and now, with those cuts reversed, he accuses the New York Times of lying about the original cut, now that they've reversed the cut. This is the level of dishonesty, right? and the level of lack of care that you have to assume is being applied to every single science cut across the system, right?

If this is how stupid and dishonest the cuts are to one program we identified, Imagine the stupidity and dishonesty multiplied across $15 billion of cuts to science, which are touching everything from cancer research, brain cancer research, Alzheimer's research, ALS research. I mean, it's just ludicrous that we're destroying these programs, and for what?

If this is how stupid and dishonest the cuts are to one program we identified, Imagine the stupidity and dishonesty multiplied across $15 billion of cuts to science, which are touching everything from cancer research, brain cancer research, Alzheimer's research, ALS research. I mean, it's just ludicrous that we're destroying these programs, and for what?

If this is how stupid and dishonest the cuts are to one program we identified, Imagine the stupidity and dishonesty multiplied across $15 billion of cuts to science, which are touching everything from cancer research, brain cancer research, Alzheimer's research, ALS research. I mean, it's just ludicrous that we're destroying these programs, and for what?

To own the libs, to express to Harvard our displeasure with their diversity programs? It's just terrible, I think, that we're essentially trying to wage a kind of ideological war against American academia and just burning science in the interim.

To own the libs, to express to Harvard our displeasure with their diversity programs? It's just terrible, I think, that we're essentially trying to wage a kind of ideological war against American academia and just burning science in the interim.

To own the libs, to express to Harvard our displeasure with their diversity programs? It's just terrible, I think, that we're essentially trying to wage a kind of ideological war against American academia and just burning science in the interim.

AI is such an interesting industry where many of the people who are most optimistic about the growth of the technology are also very pessimistic about what that optimism means. If you know what I mean, right? Like most of the time when someone's like a huge booster for say self-driving cars, It's because they think Waymo's cool.

AI is such an interesting industry where many of the people who are most optimistic about the growth of the technology are also very pessimistic about what that optimism means. If you know what I mean, right? Like most of the time when someone's like a huge booster for say self-driving cars, It's because they think Waymo's cool.

AI is such an interesting industry where many of the people who are most optimistic about the growth of the technology are also very pessimistic about what that optimism means. If you know what I mean, right? Like most of the time when someone's like a huge booster for say self-driving cars, It's because they think Waymo's cool.

MARK MIRCHANDANI- Right, they're predicting the fast growth of Waymo because they're fans of Waymo. AI is one of the only industries I know where many of the people predicting its fastest rates of growth are also terrified by the fastest rates of growth. And so I think it's important to remember that because this industry is just not like other industries. It's not just Sam Altman.

MARK MIRCHANDANI- Right, they're predicting the fast growth of Waymo because they're fans of Waymo. AI is one of the only industries I know where many of the people predicting its fastest rates of growth are also terrified by the fastest rates of growth. And so I think it's important to remember that because this industry is just not like other industries. It's not just Sam Altman.

MARK MIRCHANDANI- Right, they're predicting the fast growth of Waymo because they're fans of Waymo. AI is one of the only industries I know where many of the people predicting its fastest rates of growth are also terrified by the fastest rates of growth. And so I think it's important to remember that because this industry is just not like other industries. It's not just Sam Altman.

It's not just spin artists that are saying that the growth is happening rapidly. It's just obvious. Well, look, you look at how much companies like Google or Meta is spending on AI infrastructure. It's not like $1 or $2 billion a year. It's on the order of $60 to $70 billion a year per company. Hundreds of billions of dollars every single year are being plowed into this technology.

It's not just spin artists that are saying that the growth is happening rapidly. It's just obvious. Well, look, you look at how much companies like Google or Meta is spending on AI infrastructure. It's not like $1 or $2 billion a year. It's on the order of $60 to $70 billion a year per company. Hundreds of billions of dollars every single year are being plowed into this technology.

It's not just spin artists that are saying that the growth is happening rapidly. It's just obvious. Well, look, you look at how much companies like Google or Meta is spending on AI infrastructure. It's not like $1 or $2 billion a year. It's on the order of $60 to $70 billion a year per company. Hundreds of billions of dollars every single year are being plowed into this technology.

They're not doing it for kicks. We're talking about Apollo program style investments in a technology that each of these companies think is going to help make them a multi-trillion dollar company. In many cases, they are, I suppose, multi-trillion dollar companies. So let's say, you know, deca-trillion dollar companies. Here's one thought I have about AI.