Jasmine Sun
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first heard Jul 2026
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Yeah, I mean, I think one example is just looking at the history of the early internet, right, which was not actually built like AI was primarily in these private mega corporations, but by a guy at DARPA and a guy at Stanford working on these like TCP IP protocols.
Building these versions of the internet where it was decided from the beginning that it should run on open protocols, that it should be this open ecosystem, that different networks between countries, between institutions ought to be able to communicate with each other.
If you read the interviews or the writings of these folks like Vint Cerf, they were very clear that they believed that the internet ought to be open.
The whole point was this interconnectedness that would transcend borders.
To this day, we are using the same internet based on these open architectures.
Similarly, you know, I've been reading Sebastian Malaby's biography of Demis and Google DeepMind.
And one of the things that I find so fascinating is how in the early days of DeepMind, which is, you know, very arguably the first serious AGI lab, they could not get any funding at the beginning because no venture capitalist was willing to back a bunch of these weirdo scientists in.
who insisted that you could build super intelligence in like, you know, 2010 or whatever, who had no business plan, refused to commercialize, had no product, et cetera.
And they were running out of money until Luke Nozak from Founders Fund, simply out of his personal belief that AGI ought to be possible, that the invention to end all inventions would just be in some ways the coolest thing ever, that it was worth a multimillion dollar bet.
even while Peter Thiel and many other venture capitalists were like, you're freaking crazy for even considering funding these guys without a business plan.
And so I think when we look at the history of these frontier technologies, when there are only a few people who have, frankly, the technical abilities to make them possible, those people's idiosyncratic beliefs in this thing or another, believing that artificial general intelligence, for example, might be possible at all,
believing that the internet ought to be an open thing that transcends borders, they set these precedents and they make these fundamental architectural decisions or funding decisions that sort of lay the groundwork for everything else that comes after.
Yeah.
In this case, I'm talking a lot more, I think, about classic Silicon Valley and the VC startup corporate ecosystem around tech, which is still the majority of the tech industry.
It's somewhat true.
I would say it's less true at the AI labs just because there are a lot of people who are, as you mentioned, doomers who are employed at, who are working at frontier labs.
When you ask like, what is Silicon Valley's political philosophy or what is its ideology in general?
You
You can identify a bunch of little tribes, like you can identify the effective altruists here and the progress studies people over there and the EACs over here.
But one of the things that a lot of them share is a sort of very firm belief that technological progress is necessarily a good thing.
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