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no macro-technology birthed by the bay area tech industry has been met with more hatred by bay area tech industry elites than frontier ai. many of those elites looked at the technology landscape of 2020/1, scoffed at the labs and their weird little hopes of ‘agi,’ and concluded that cryptocurrency would be the technology of the decade. now their businesses and worldviews are under fundamental threat from what the labs have achieved. they hate it. they beg for the labs to go away, to become commoditized, by America’s enemies if necessary. they’d love to see the US frontier labs immolated by the industrial strategy of America’s principal geostrategic rival, and they declare this proudly and in public. they were wrong about the defining technology of the decade, and now they are scared and they want to destroy the thing they were wrong about. perhaps now they are right and the labs will be rendered insolvent by commodification. I do believe this is possible. nonetheless there is something randian about it all, about their utter disdain for success and achievement and discovery and chutzpah.

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