Ed Zitron

Oh, yeah, we might delay our IPO if we have signs of RSI, if we have signs of AI that can build itself.

Meta, a year ago, said in Personal Superintelligence, we're seeing the early signs.

And they're doing this because, in my opinion, maybe you disagree, Cal, they've run out of ideas to the point that they're literally going back to what Sam Altman said in 2019.

Yeah, we'll just ask the AI what to do.

Yeah.

Ask the AI how to build it.

These guys have so few ideas.

They're just like, Christ, can't we just make the AI do it?

Not the history.

Yeah, and I fully agree that...

I think it's a distraction as well from the actual reality of what these things are.

And I think it's a deliberate one.

I naturally fall on the side of just thinking these people are deeply cynical.

I've met people who think that Dario Amadei believes this stuff.

I actually don't.

I don't think they believe a fucking thing.

I think that however you feel is however you feel.

But I think that they...

correctly realize that they could very easily make people talk about something that doesn't exist just by mentioning it.

I saw a bunch of headlines that were like, wow, Anthropic sees the path to self-building AI.