Putting aside the questions of (as some comments here have) whether * AI is a “fucking dud” (you have to be either highly ignorant or trolling to say this)

Putting aside the questions of (as some comments here have) whether * AI is a “fucking dud” (you have to be either highly ignorant or trolling to say this) * Altman is a “charlatan” (definitely no but it does look like he has some unsavory personal traits, quite common BTW for people at that level) * the ridiculousness of touting a cancer cure (I guess the post is targeted to the technical hoi polloi, with whom such terminology resonates, but also see protein 3D structure discovery advances) I found the following to be interesting in this post: 1. Altman clearly signaling affinity for the Abundance bandwagon with a clear reference right in the title. Post is shorter but has the flavor of Marc Andreessen's "It's Time to Build" post from 2020: https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/ https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/ 2. He advances the vision of "creat[ing] a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week". This may be called frighteningly ambitious at a minimum: U.S. annual additions have been ~10-20 GW/year for solar builds (https://www.climatecentral.org/report/solar-and-wind-power-2024?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.climatecentral.org/report/solar-and-wind-power-2...)