sachin.

"Don’t save for retirement"

~ Elon Musk

“Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”

“Either we’re not going to be here, or you won’t need to save for retirement.”

“If any of the things we’ve said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant.”

Starlink should build an orbital data centre, then the efficiency of SI will be very good.

SI training algo: Starlink
SI data centre for compute: Starlink
& SpaceX rocket for deploying the data centre in space.

“Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist without the US military”

Walter Isaacson: “What do you think when Anthropic or even Google say no, we don’t want to be part of the military?”

Alex Karp: “Silicon Valley is a highly insulated island. The only institution a supermajority of Americans think is indisputably noble is the US military.”

“It’s a hypocrisy. The Valley would not even exist without the US military.”

Is Anthropic laying off their own engineers?

Dario Amodei: Even inside Anthropic, we’ll need fewer people.

“Maybe we’re starting to see the little beginnings of it in software and coding. I even see it within Anthropic.”

“I can look forward to a time where, on the junior end and then the intermediate end, we actually need less and not more people.”

“One to five years, as of six months ago. I would stick with that.”

Dario Amodei: Selling AI chips to China is like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.

“If this was telecom, then all this stuff about proliferating the US stack would make sense.”

“I think of this more as: are we going to sell nuclear weapons to North Korea because that produces some profit for Boeing?”

“That analogy should make clear how I see this trade-off.”