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King of Cannibal Island

John Lanchester London Review of Books
Today, each of the ten biggest companies in the world is worth more than $1 trillion. Only one of them, the Saudi oil monopoly, Aramco, has nothing to do with the future value of AI. Is it a bubble? Of course it’s a bubble. What happens next?

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Sam Altman Is Shilling for OpenAI

Sam Altman wants to make a deal with us: he'll give us a utopian future, if we give him... everything. $750 billion in investment. Electricity. Our data. And if that utopia never comes, he'll profit off of the damage.

 

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