Balaji Profile picture
Nov 18 2 tweets 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The logic of the AI doomer is the logic of the Unabomber.

Anything that lowers "p(doom)" is good.

Like banning compute, bankrupting companies, or blowing up datacenters.

And these radical Luddites won't stop at ruining their own AI companies.

They want to control yours too.
Like many ideologies, AI doomerism evolved into something like communism.

They need to control the world's AI, and thus the world's compute, and thus the world, to *save* the world.

Amazingly, their master plan puts Kamala Harris in charge of saving us from superintelligence. Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Balaji

Balaji Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @balajis

Nov 16
1) Ban China
2) Be China
3) Beat China

These are the options. I get the logic, but banning signals technological and cultural weakness. Yet so does capitulation of the Newsom variety. The best way is to build something *better* than China, as Elon and others in tech have done.
Image
Democrat concern about Russia is similar to Republican concern about China.

I get where it comes from. But the real answer is to build a more compelling product that can win on the global internet.

Otherwise you're giving up on soft power.
Why isn't China submissive anymore?

The unspoken truth: because they don't respect America anymore. For example, they feel they can build better cities than the US.

The best way to prove them wrong is to outbuild them.
Read 5 tweets
Nov 15
Democrats cleaned up San Francisco for Communists.
Newsom admits they removed the drug addicts for Xi.

“That's true because it's true.”
And don’t let them pretend this was just like cleaning up before some friends come over!

We are talking poop, needles, syringes — raw sewage on the streets.

And we are talking about addicts, thieves, and arsonists.
Read 8 tweets
Nov 6
Congress blew him kisses.
Journalists gave him applause.
Regulators promised to take no action.
So it was only Crypto Twitter that uncovered his deception.

Read the actual history of what happened with Sam Bankman-Fried, before it gets memory holed.
balajis.com/p/crypto-twitt…
Meanwhile, Coindesk's Ian Allison was revealing[1] that SBF had no money, while Axios' Dan Primack was asking[2] whether SBF could cure world hunger.

[1]:
[2]:

archive.ph/y7YOi
archive.ph/nlYCj
Remember when Bankless was playing hardball with SBF[1], while Joe Weisenthal was throwing him softballs[2]?

Dunno why @thestalwart is tweeting from behind a block, but maybe you can ask him.
[1]:
[2]:
archive.ph/6Wl2t
archive.ph/wuwOp
Read 5 tweets
Sep 27
The Army War College thinks war with China could cause 3600 casualties per day. So, they're considering a draft. press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Image
One decade's worth of casualties in one week.

"For context, the US sustained about 50k casualties in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In large-scale combat operations, the US could experience that same number of casualties in two weeks." press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Image
Others are making similar proposals, due to military recruiting shortfalls.

"...in 2023, every service except the Marine Corps is poised to miss its recruiting goals. In 2022, the Army alone fell short by 15,000 recruits."
military.com/daily-news/opi…
Read 5 tweets
Sep 20
The state is blue. Image
The money is blue. Image
Read 6 tweets
Aug 8
COPILOT FOR CORPORATIONS

How do you double the value of cloud storage? Add AI summarization of PDFs, thereby allowing businesses to replace millions in legal bills with thousands in SaaS fees. It’d be like Github Copilot, but for corporations.

As context, every founder and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Some follow up thoughts.

1) In addition to using AI to inexpensively *read* corporate PDFs, of course you also want to use it to cheaply *write* corporate PDFs.

Because if we go back to the analogy of a folder of corporate contracts as a database, right now every interaction… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Ha, somehow this got 23M views a few months ago and I didn’t see it.

As mentioned — I figured this was obvious, but it’s still early enough in AI that I wanted to describe a specific valuable workflow in the hope that someone would build it.

Looks like Box AI is already in… https://t.co/srO7CBYX47twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(