n+1 once said McSweeny's (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/) is just Mad Magazine for the literary set, and today is the right time to share that.
The whole take-down is great: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-1/the-intellectual-situati...
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I once worked with the Normal Rockwell Estate and their letterhead used Comic Sans.
> If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips). If we don’t build enough infrastructure, AI will be a very limited resource that wars get fought over and that becomes mostly a tool for rich people.
Translation for the rest of us: "we need to fully privatize the OA subsidiary and turn it into a B-corp which can raise a lot more capital over the next decade, in order to achieve the goals of the nonprofit, because the chief threat is not anything like existential risk from autonomous agents in the next few years or arms races, but inadequate commercialization due to fundraising constraints".
It's amazing how he can imagine wars being fought over AI but not wars being fought over resources needed to "build enough infrastructure."
30 years ago it was thought collecting every issue of magazines like TV Guide was important. No one even knows what that is anymore.
No one is ever going to look at 99% of this data. In the meantime, send more hard drives for my NAS!!