People are celebrating or mourning the Ant IPO, but I'm still trying to understand the worldview where frontier labs not being profitable *would have proven* AI isn't transformative.
I think it's maybe a capitalist mysticism where social life is mostly Illusion, and only the Profitable is Real?
Ted Underwood
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