"BREAKING: Following shocking reports that fertilizer is available for purchase online, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has elected to temporarily suspend Internet access until further review."
If the current trajectory holds, we’re headed towards some version of these two alternatives:
> big tech privatizes the government;
> the government nationalizes big tech.
In 2000 Cisco's peak market cap (~$555B) was about 5.4% of the US GDP.
If the ratio holds up this time -- Anthropic should clear $1.75T (to speak nothing of PS ratios).
Disclosure: Have no stake, unfortunately :)
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We have been surprised that coders still code without actually coding, mathematicans do not do math proofs, and writers who write without actually writing words. Our future is not job replacement but a kind of new work we have trouble imagining only a year ago.
Congratulations to Westminster Council for their acceptance of Banksy’s brilliant statue near Pall Mall. Let’s hope it stays — a welcome note of calmness and humour at a time of growing extremism.
Paradoxically, the more convincing deep fakes become, the more people will instinctively disbelieve everything -- even the truth.
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