Maybe I have different priors than the author but I never saw the $500b Stargate as anything "real" in the first place. It seemed pretty obvious this was a way to give an authoritarian president with a love for big numbers and a vindictive streak a win while OpenAI was taking away attention from him.
Same as Foxconn's LCD factory.
I don't like it, I don't respect the companies that do it, but I also understand it.
What’s significant is professional journalists at publications with the resources to vet the information didn’t. They just performed stenography because they didn’t want a militia at their doors. Pretty bleak.
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Maybe I have different priors than the author but I never saw the $500b Stargate as anything "real" in the first place. It seemed pretty obvious this was a way to give an authoritarian president with a love for big numbers and a vindictive streak a win while OpenAI was taking away attention from him.
Same as Foxconn's LCD factory.
I don't like it, I don't respect the companies that do it, but I also understand it.
What’s significant is professional journalists at publications with the resources to vet the information didn’t. They just performed stenography because they didn’t want a militia at their doors. Pretty bleak.