"The mistake that every investor, commentator, analyst and member of the media makes about NVIDIA is believing that its sales are an expression of demand for AI compute, when it’s really more of a statement about the availability of debt from banks and private credit."
"By foregrounding per-query impact, substack writers and companies are erasing the real problem with generative systems: they are oversold and overused, in an anxious bid to make impossibly high hopes come true.... [I]n terms of diversion away from real action, it is the weird flipped cousin of the way fossil fuel companies exploited and popularised 'carbon footprint' messaging to divert responsibility for action away from themselves."
"I am not going to go line-by-line to cut [AI 2027] apart anymore than I am going to write a lengthy takedown of someone’s erotic Banjo Kazooie story, because both are fictional."
"Turns out human beings really like building the Torment Nexus. But it also turns out that human beings are good at defeating the Torment Nexus."
"The general global trend towards authoritarianism, censorship and silencing of academics, journalists alike that stand up for fundamental rights, the rule of law, and justice is difficult to deal with in the current climate. But for a Summit that supposedly claims that 'AI for Good remains firmly aligned with the collective priorities of the international community' and '[…] it is our responsibility to ensure that no one is left behind', to then censor an invited keynote speaker that advocates for confronting difficult issues and engaging in self-reflection, is doubly disheartening."
"When the incoming administration leverages technology to carry out mass deportations and other human rights violations, do we have a plan to stop it, or at least mitigate harm and build power for the future?"
"The tech industry was never perfect. It never lived up to its lofty ambitions. But it has gotten demonstrably worse. And I think the fork-in-the-road moment was when the industry stopped trying to celebrate old-school hackers like Aaron Swartz and started working full-time to build monuments to Sam Altman instead."
"I set my goal not use ANY microcontrollers or FPGAs in my build - just basic discrete logic components. So, what exactly am I going to build? I needed to NOT set too a high goal for myself, so I would be able to finish this project in *relatively* short time (Is 2yrs short enough? :-) ). The most basic RISC-V CPU, that is supported by compilers, must include the extension "I" (Integer) and it must be at least 32 bit. So now I had all the information I'm going to need, so it was time to start building."
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