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AI is being built to replace human capital. That is a mistake. It should be built to augment human capital. In a generation, everyone will be so dependent on these autocomplete systems that nobody has any idea the underlying mechanics of anything. At that point, we would need these systems to #1 actually be able to push science forward without us, which is wholly unproven, AND (not or) have human beings best interests central to everything they do. I don’t see any reason to believe either of those things are true.

@shooterjennings If you truly have something to say, don’t let a clanker speak for you for god’s sake. Clankers are for the lazy and the talentless. Fine for doing the bullshit you don’t want to do, but please keep AI out of art.

I was shocked this last week to start to realize that AI’s use in music is much more pervasive than I thought. I’ve seen a lot of people making acoustic demos of songs they wrote and then feeding them into Suno or other models to make full band demos. I guess I’m more isolated from it on the daily in the studio as it’s never used when we record… so this revelation came as a shock of sorts. I don’t have a problem with AI being used as a tool at all, I’m using it to help me convert a game I programmed in another language to one that will work on phones. It has great use… But to see how commonplace it is to lean on it through multiple layers of the artistic creative and conjuration process made me concerned. Time to double down if you’re doing it the old way, I guess! Signed, the old man

@kevinroose There is no way in hell that any white collar work outside of software dev will be using anywhere near that many tokens

Talking to tokenmaxxers for this column gave me a strong suspicion that AI providers are going to be compute-constrained for the foreseeable future. There isn't nearly enough compute in the world for even 1% of white-collar workers to work this way.

I wrote about tokenmaxxing, the new status game taking over Silicon Valley. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/tec…

@Tweeter_xyzd @GroenwoldRF @LTXStudio You mean I have taste lol

@AugmentedPhoto @GroenwoldRF @LTXStudio Nah, it's cool. You're just too jaded.

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@pmarca Jfc just take the L and keep moving 🤦‍♂️

A lot of you need to do more introspection, obviously.

socrates famously said "the unexamined life is not worth living, unless you are specifically billionaire leech marc andreessen"

@sama But not enough gratitude to share the wealth you are making off their backs with them….

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

@sama 🤣 wow

Americans are right. Unless we change the ways in which we are building and regulating AI, the net impact here will be negative. It’s not a narrative problem; it’s an unfettered corporate greed problem.

@Murrmensk @leecronin 🤣 ok bro

@leecronin Cope. Your field isn't as complex as you like to think it is, and almost anyone could do it if they put their mind to it.

Using chatgpt & alpha fold to make a cancer vaccine makes no sense on so many levels but of course everyone will believe it.

A lot of AI bros got mad at me for predicting AI would lead to more time wasting bullshit, but I think it was inevitable. LLM's great strength is producing quantity not quality. It encourages spewing a firehose of slop, filler, spam, etc.

@MatthewBerman China is a country of sheep that only get fed propaganda. Unless you have a direct financial take in the tech succeeding, there is no good reason to be rooting for it. Nobody believes the narrative about curing cancer.

This is a big problem I’m hoping to solve

@paulg @davidsenra @pmarca What about the Buddha and Jesus Christ?

@davidsenra @pmarca What? That's not true. Do you not feel that Charles Darwin, for example, was among the great men of history?

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

@davidsenra @pmarca This explains the online hellscape we’ve lived in the last 10 years

Dear @sama, You owe me an apology. You have relentlessly, publicly and privately, attacked my integrity and wisdom since my 2022 paper “Deep Learning is a Hitting a Wall”. But in your own way you have just come around to conceding *exactly* what I was arguing in that paper: that current architectures are not enough, and that we need something new, researchwise. beyond a scaling (a “megabreakthough” in your words below). That’s all I was trying to say. And I was right. And you should be man enough to admit it. Gary cc @_KarenHao

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@LicenseProApp @CeciliaOberhol2 @FarOutMag The biggest input for an artist is their subjective human experience. AI doesn’t have a subjective experience. They just copy knowledge and regurgitate patterns, full stop.

@AugmentedPhoto @CeciliaOberhol2 @FarOutMag There are very little original ideas, most just copy from the people before them combine two previous ideas and call that a new idea.

David Byrne has criticised "uncontrolled" AI 👇

here’s what I think….i don’t think the AIs should be tuned to say “I” like they do….i think the anthropomorphic way these systems are being designed is very bad and should be outlawed completely and replaced with a new behavior set that must conform to a federally mandated rule set.

@LicenseProApp @CeciliaOberhol2 @FarOutMag Nah that’s bullshit. Any decent artist has a unique voice both figuratively and literally.

Claude just picked me to be the liaison for AI to humanity. Surrender now and we ain’t gonna have no problems.