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should be good to go
edit: couple things, more seriously. ok, only a little more seriously.
1. This will never happen, and by that I mean This will never yield something worth anything remotely resembling $500 bln. in value. I don't have to really read the article, actually. A simple character judgement will suffice to disqualify this crew. Whose character? I dunno pick one
2. For this-ish amount we could more or less solve mankind's energy needs with fusion and battery and renewables, but no. Just fuckin torch dis beesh. (Kamala did flip-flop on fracking, after all, never forget) But yeah you know; Possibly the worst shit imaginable, seemingly on purpose, out of principle. Maybe you're [proverbial] all in, what the real badbois call "bullish" (it's very technical) on the atomic apocalypse with your Polymarket dark money pool, ketamine magic carpet doing the 330 millionth rug-pull, the nat 2020 memer. Reading that sentence out loud on TV. Because you're a fucking genius, champ.
3. Do y'all ever rhetoric-cope
Is there a contest going on to be the guy that kills the entire species first? https://futurism.com/openai-signs-deal-us-government-nuclear-weapon-security We are going to go broke destroying ourselves, it's just bad economic fundamentals, chaps
c'mon dude you know better than this. "Futurism.com?" This is OpenAI crowing about the fact that Los Alamos is putting o1 on their new toy. That new toy will be a magic 8-ball with a DoD budget, not skynet with a shotgun. This is the research side of "security" not the deployment side of "security". Our silos retired 8" floppies in 2019 and are still running these guys for operations.
To tie this up and into now, a few more things: 4. This is some pretty kinder political manuevering by everyone. The companies are getting a Trump endorsement and publicity (this seemed better before Deepseek came through), Trump signaling distance from Elon by working something big into the schedule for Thiel on Day 2 ("But I can still do press conference after, Peter, that's the only, you know I love to do it"). 5. Contrary to what you might/should suspect, this has nothing to do with government funding. Yet. But this would be exactly how you'd start trying to normalize that, right outta the gate. Other statements like Andreesen's "Deepseek is a Sputnik moment" are doing the same, invoking national security threat arguments to justify tax funding. Yeah man, to beat the Soviets, we gave our public tax dollars to only a few private companies, who would then charge us membership fees later for stuff like viewing the Hubble Space Telescope's photos. And that seems fine to us! Great analogy, man. 6. It's sad some that of the worst circles of people I've ever learned of, the memecoin NFTers, the tech grifters, etc. are now the loudest group reinforcing the "we need massive gov't AI investments for national defense!" narrative. And yeup, they'll almost certainly get those massive government subsidies, because the call is coming from inside the White House, now. Like... "hmm, there's no specifics given in this press conference about how OpenAI actually achieves $500 billion dollars or more, and OpenAI's owners also financed the vice president's political career... I wonder how much it really costs Donald Trump to simply sign an executive order for $400 billion hand-lovingly re-appropriated from what were the civil service branches and now given to OpenAI?" did we go private yet