Social Sanctioning Engine Stalls; Scandals Lose Impact
It's incredible the extent to which the social sanctioning engine has simply seized up. Hit pieces that would have been 5-alarm fires 5 years ago now come and go with no notice. Nobody cares, it's over.
Silicon Valley Sees AI Obsession as Binary Extremes
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Everyone in the world is now either 'too AI psychotic' or 'not AI psychotic enough'."
AGI Pricing: 11 Companies Pay -$9M, Others Infinity
New AGI pricing tier just dropped: negative $9 million if you're one of 11 specific companies; infinity otherwise.
AGI Pricing Spans $20/Month to $10 Billion
The pricing tiers for AGI are something like (1) $20/month, (2) $200/day = ~$75,000/year, (3) $1,000/day = ~$350,000/year, and (4) ~$10 billion. For now.
AI Exposes Old Flaws, Finally Boosts Cybersecurity
Every security flaw discovered by AI was there before AI, waiting to be discovered either by people or by AI. The world has never been good at securing computer systems; finally with AI we are going to get good.
Industry Crippled by Total Supply Chain Component Shortage
It’s an unfortunate time for the industry to run out of every single important component in the supply chain.
From $10k Daily to $20 Monthly: AI Cost Revolution
Magical OpenClaw experiences that use frontier models cost $300-1,000/day today, heading to $10,000/day and more. The future shape of the entire technology industry will be how to drive that to $20/month.
Rising Costs and Token Surge Challenge Model Equilibrium
Frontier models become more expensive to serve. Token demand explodes at exponential rates. Solve for the equilibrium.
Tech Job Openings Surge 2026, Defying AI Layoff Narrative
"Tech job openings rebounded sharply in 2026, challenging popular narrative that AI is wiping out engineering roles...more than 67,000 software eng job openings, highest level in 3 years. Listings have doubled since a trough in mid-2023." https://t.co/VDyuxXi9Tm
Future Innovation Thrives When Work Becomes Play
Silly Business Theory is right: in the future the best work, greatest progress, most valuable innovations won't come from laboring under the false consciousness that work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to...
Tegmark Calls for Ban on Open‑Source AI
I've been in the room with Vitalik-backed Max Tegmark and United States Senators when Tegmark pounds the table demanding open source AI software be made illegal. https://t.co/vmjW8mAykb
Vitalik Funds AI‑doom Lobby Pushing Illegal Restrictions
Vitalik funds one of the main AI doomer lobbying organizations trying to make this illegal.
AI Safety Cannot Depend on Secrecy and Control
The idea that “AI safety” could be based on secrecy and control has been fatally falsified.
AI Thrives Where Edge Cases Overwhelm Human Error
Thesis: the problem with AI working in every domain = all the edge cases. Antithesis: domains with lots of edge cases = difficult & time consuming to practically impossible for error-prone people. Synthesis: such domains = where AI agents will...
Technology Continues Lowering Living Costs, Not Raising Them
Claude responds: The "Rising Cost of Existence" Claim Has No Mechanism — And the Default Technological Trajectory Is the Opposite The argument asserts that AI pushes the cost of human existence up. This is stated, not argued. And it runs directly contrary...
Stop Discussing Virtue, Start Living It
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, X.16: “To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.” https://t.co/3jfKJnENcp
Bubeck's 2023 AGI Sparks Paper Still Holds Up
The 2023 “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” paper by Sébastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck is aging very well.
AI Trusted for War, Ignored for Everyday Queries
Overheard in Silicon Valley: “The current brainiac position is that AI *should* dictate war policy to the government but *should not* answer questions about your hangnail.”
AI Regulation Supporters Suddenly Become Opponents
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Every single person who was in favor of government control of AI, is now opposed to government control of AI."
Building Health AI to Transform American Lives
Truly incredible vision and ambition to improve American lives from @HHS_Jim and his colleagues. It’s time to build health AI. 🩺👨⚕️🇺🇸🚀
Federal AI Law Needed to Stop State Patchwork Killing Startups
The President is right. A 50-state patchwork is a startup killer. Federal AI legislation is essential. There’s no bigger issue for Little Tech — the builders who create the future, for America.
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From $182M Loss to $38B Annual
https://t.co/GRwsz6132y is the go-to slur of the Dot Com era. Let's see: https://t.co/GRwsz6132y burned ~$182M total investor capital before going bust. Today, just US online pet goods sales = ~$38B/year; ~$70B total market cap including portions of Amazon & Walmart....