Perfect? No.
But it's worth understanding a bit more about the investment structures underlying the current datacenter build out

The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom

On this 250th anniversary of the US, I wonder what must change in our governance, culture, and civic duties to make it to the 1000th anniversary.
I also wonder how many of us will still be alive by then (non-zero chance it's not none!), and whether that'd change our calculus.

Inspiringly reasonable (regardless of where you fall on the issue in question)
I long to return to a world where the norm was closer to this.

Who's with me? :)
But if you just think I happen to be wrong, even about something important—especially about something important—I encourage you to keep showing up with better evidence and arguments. This, after all, is what a real intellectual and moral community is for.

Yes, the future is pretty bleak unless more people realize what is coming and do something about it.
If you need ideas for that something, I've got plenty, but unfortunately we're still at the “people are still weirdly denying that this will be a problem” phase of things…

10 theses on attention

Ashley Zhang restacked
So much is written about attention these days. This list distills the most important ideas, in a way that feels both scholarly and actionable, and also articulates some ideas that I’d been groping my way towards without quite finding the words yet.
I’m especially glad to see this there: Individual practice is insufficient for civilizational-scale problems.

This is how I want writing and reading to feel in the LLM era.