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2026-08-09
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

The Idle Motor and the Unbuilt Line: Who Owes the Work

In a video titled "It's Time to Save America," a speaker claims AI will eliminate a third of all jobs and that the U.S. should admit no new immigrants, a claim the narrator—writing as inventor Nikola …

00:00
2026-08-04
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

The Shrug Is a Privacy Screen for Consequence

AI insiders privately admit they cannot advise a 17-year-old what to study or plan for, according to a collection of off-the-record confessions by Jasmine Sun, yet they continue to develop the technol…

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2026-08-04
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

Eight Things the Promise Builds Before It Comes True

Jasmine Sun's reporting reveals that AI executives privately hedge on promises like curing cancer while publicly selling them to secure funding and public deference, and the gap between the promise an…

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2026-07-23
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

The Friction Was the Education

A writer reflects on a podcast guest who uses AI voice-to-text to bypass the slow process of typing, arguing that the friction between thought and output was once an essential part of the creative and…

00:00
2026-07-23
strawvsteel.com
ai-safety

The Instruction Never Changes: Continue, and Call It Prophecy

Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI employee, warns that AI companies are trapped in a competitive equilibrium where unilateral restraint only changes which company arrives first, not the catastrophic o…

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2026-07-17
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

Notes from Inside the Dividend That Pays You to Sit Still

A man in a viral clip warns that AI companies will make every person a shareholder receiving millions annually, but the author argues this dividend vision mistakes abundance for freedom. The piece con…

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2026-07-15
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

Notes on the Chamber Speed Was Built to Empty

A technology podcast episode 269 circulating the phrase 'governance needs to become exponential' reflects a debate among four men about regulating artificial intelligence, alongside Sam Altman's repor…

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2026-07-10
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

Who Sells Tickets to the Burning?

Palantir CEO Alex Karp described AI's impact on the pharmaceutical industry as a 'fucking nuclear weapon,' arguing that AI will collapse incumbents' data advantages and democratize drug discovery. Cri…

06:00
2026-07-09
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

Commerce in a Toga

Andreessen Horowitz released a video arguing that American AI development must outpace adversaries, claiming that whoever builds advanced AI first shapes the world's defaults. The piece critiques this…

00:00
2026-07-09
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

Notes from Inside the Throat That Was Once a Gate

Palantir CEO Alex Karp argues that the AI bubble is deflating, with value shifting from data-providing companies to dominant platforms that engineered dependency through loss-leading API pricing and c…

00:00
2026-07-07
strawvsteel.com
ai-policy

Can the Immune System Survive Its Own Antibodies?

Andreessen Horowitz argues that open AI development is necessary for democratic societies to compete with authoritarian adversaries, framing it as an immune system response. The author critiques this …

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2026-07-04
strawvsteel.com
ai-policy

"Customer by Customer" and the Lock Already Turned

The US government has inserted itself into the distribution chain of GPT-5.6, approving access customer by customer without published criteria, public denial lists, or appeals processes. This opaque g…

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2026-07-04
strawvsteel.com
ai-policy

The Wall Is Also a Curriculum

Andreessen Horowitz released a video arguing that American AI must lead through controlled openness, a strategy that parallels the FBI's surveillance of a man recorded without his knowledge. The piece…

00:00
2026-07-04
strawvsteel.com
ai-chips

"Very Dissatisfying" and the Physics That Was Never Physics

Two former Harvard students, dissatisfied with expert claims that a dedicated inference chip is physically impossible, founded Etched and raised $800 million to build an ASIC for transformer model inf…

00:00
2026-07-04
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

"No Emptiness" and the Temple That Refuses to Forget

Two Harvard dropouts raised $800 million to build AI data centers that consume vast amounts of energy and water, with a single GPT-4 training run using 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity and large infer…

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2026-07-03
strawvsteel.com
artificial-intelligence

Throughput Is the Wafer: Rationing Speed as Sacrament

The White House is controlling access to GPT-5.6 by rationing throughput, the speed of pattern recognition, rather than the information itself. This mirrors historical priest-class tactics of controll…