1/5 Everyone who's seen @_panthalassa's wave-powered data centers agrees that the tech is incredible. But just as revolutionary is what it does to 400 years of legal thinking about the ocean. The law has always seen the ocean as space you move through or extract from, never a space where you produce things. Ocean compute changes that. If the ocean becomes the site of AI's industrial base, the consequences for great power competition and AI governance are enormous. A 🧵on my recent analysis:
agency raising media (“you can just do things”):
- phineas and ferb
- nathan fielder
- robert caro books
- that one ted talk about paperclip -> house
agency raising media (“you can just do things”):
- phineas and ferb
- nathan fielder
- robert caro books
- that one ted talk about paperclip -> house
the window for experimenting with llms has basically closed now. the megacorps have fully hit escape velocity and are shipping new products and new features daily. the shift is that they’re not just shipping llms anymore, they’re using llms to build products and improve existing ones at scale. the wild west era of llms isn’t really the wild west anymore. a year ago, this could’ve been an indie dev side project, maybe even a monetizable product. it was literally so easy that the only real bottleneck was your free time. now, whatever idea you have, you should basically assume google/anthropic/oai will build some version of it within a week and wipe out most of the startup surface area around it
> senile old guy who used to have the juice
> pursuing unpopular foreign policy
> domestic policy that makes inflation worse
is Trump just Biden