Ed Zitron

I only write about bad companies.

Yeah, you moved it to an SPV.

But let's talk doom trolling, because you have this fantastic piece that talks about the fact that all these companies, Anthropic, OpenAI, even DeepMind to an extent, just keep selling things based on the destruction that AI will allegedly cause, though they appear to be talking about another kind of technology entirely when you think about it.

We're like, what the hell are you talking about?

But they're going to go 2,000 miles an hour at some point in the future.

Yeah, we would just ban them.

We'd ban it.

Yeah, it's consumer safety.

No one would buy.

Yeah, just, it's really, it is something that's, I love the term doom trolling as well, because it really frames it well, because it's all part of a larger complex of them never talking about what they're building today.

It's always this theoretical scary thingy that might, it's always two years or two minutes away, depending on who you're talking to.

Well, another thing that you have in the piece is that it's unclear, like that dichotomy is, it isn't clear why they're even doing this other than to make money.

And also they're not acting as if any of this is true.

They're not doing anything that suggests that they're actually concerned.

You mentioned Dario Amadei's thing about how, oh, we might need a pause in AI or we should have that option.

But that isn't actually what he was suggesting.

He was suggesting something entirely different.

Pretty pictures and an animation of... I was just thinking of the little replicating thing.

We'll get to self-learning AI in a second.

Just to be clear, a harness is basically a series of scripts that runs on top of the LLM.