Samo Burja

There's never been an immortal society. Figuring out why. Founder @bismarckanlys.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

The U.S. company Cerebras successfully designed the largest computer chip ever made, fifty times bigger than a GPU.

If AI demand continues to grow, it will not be the last company to design a peculiar chip with unique advantages.

Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief (link below):

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Treasure your time. It is fleeting.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Talking to my son (6 y.o.) this morning, I was starkly reminded how serious children are.

They want to do what matters to them, not be stuck with fake tasks and activities.

1/n

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@akarlin @RokoMijic Incredibly based

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@IterIntellectus Live player

[Fredösphere @Fredosphere]

Pull this 🧵

It's short and kinda scary.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

If you've tried out Fable which came out after this post, you have likely seen his already.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

As time goes on I also expect AI simply taking you more seriously when answering questions or working with you will come to matter more and more.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@freddiesayers Sometimes things are as they seem.

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

We’re at the stage now where beheadings are regrettable, but tweets are unforgivable.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

When it comes to intelligence, I don't think will see a great equalization, rather a Matthew effect:

"For to every one who has will more be given..."

There is definitely a correlation between your natural intelligence and the odds of you accessing cutting edge AI.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@kunley_drukpa Feudalism works in practice, but what about in theory?

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@CallMeEzekielYT @TossitRambles Glad to hear! It's one of the articles I'm most proud of:

https://t.co/Q08aUEUVcl

[CallMeEzekiel @CallMeEzekielYT]

It was The End of Industrial Society that got me onto this line of thought. It found me at the perfect time since my history channel is preparing to do a deep dive on the middle 19th century

I really appreciate your lens on industrialization and social technology and will have to read Great Founder Theory soon

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@tx_ice9 Interesting, will watch, have you ever written on this?

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@TossitRambles @CallMeEzekielYT Yes

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

The prediction isn't that old yet is already aging well given news regarding Anthropic withholding certain capabilities from their latest release.

In this era, as in every previous one, intelligence will continue to be distributed unequally.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

When it comes to intelligence, I don't think will see a great equalization, rather a Matthew effect:

"For to every one who has will more be given..."

There is definitely a correlation between your natural intelligence and the odds of you accessing cutting edge AI.

[MTS @MTSlive]

Could printing money to buy AI lab equity actually be good economic policy?

@SamoBurja:

"The US government has been printing trillion-dollar bills like it's no tomorrow, mainly to make sure the stock market doesn't go down. That political incentive is massive and it's not going away."

"The question is, well, who gets them?"

"If I told you the US government was investing a trillion dollars into data centers, that would seem like good industrial policy... if it buys equity in OpenAI or Anthropic at market value, I'm pretty sure they're gonna use it for employee compensation and for data centers. Not that bad actually."

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@SaadMaan15 Can write more on this yes!

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Through many years of my research, I've released work on a number of theoretical concepts for understanding the economic, political, and scientific landscape of the modern world and its history.

Which ones should I write about in more detail?

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@CosmicEggEarth Many!

https://t.co/YR4PSluj87

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

“God made men differ in strength, but Sam Colt made them equal. Likewise, God made men differ in intelligence, but Sam Altman made them equal.” Hmmm

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

When it comes to intelligence, I don't think will see a great equalization, rather a Matthew effect:

"For to every one who has will more be given..."

There is definitely a correlation between your natural intelligence and the odds of you accessing cutting edge AI.

[Wolf Tivy @wolftivy]

Samo is right. This is obvious when you think of why cities are valuable. Individual units of intelligence are stronger in collaboration than on their own. AI egalitarianism is just the same old fallacy that transportation is decentralizing.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@econbob16337 Good idea!

[MTS @MTSlive]

Which organizations will win in the AI era?

@SamoBurja, founder of Bismarck Analysis:

"The era of functional institutions is not over... I actually think it'll be functional institutions that will best adjust to AI."

"AI provides you with the ability to scale white-collar labor. If you have broken processes and you try to fit AI into a broken process, you are just putting the weight into all the remaining bottlenecks."

"The whole bureaucratic process that has driven the 20th century produces organizations that decay rapidly and waste immense amounts of natural intelligence."

"It remains relevant to figure out what are those principles that allow you to run a hyper-scaled bureaucracy effectively."