The thing I freaking warned founders to engineers to VCs is here. Headline in a business paper: “AI phobia is America’s new consensus” “‘Stop us before we end humanity,’ the AI titans keep telling us. Also, ‘trust me and me alone, not my competitors’” They poisoned the well and pooped in the hot tub. Two CEOs crippled by arrogance either purposely or cluelessly—injured the public perception of AI (and robots). It looks only get worse and will launch Luddite political careers and elect a new president riding on the back of this new anti AI, anti Clanker donkey. All of this could have been averted and now we are in a new Luddite timeline. This stupidity will assure a) No IPO b) Market crashing post IPO burning down. All from avertable public comments and company positions. This has a slight chance of being averted but past performance now shows future gains in doubling down in arrogance. You reading this, as much as you may or may not love this tech, are in the 1% that by comparison hold AI’s promise and peril in an educated mind. I know this because somehow my feed reached you. You represent a well thinking very small and easily trampled minority. How did this happen? Thank Dario. From his holier than tho thought pieces to his congressional and presidential emergency meetings to his almost daily fear marketing reports dressed up as academic papers he is the poster boy for the anti movement. Quite unlike any CEO in history this guy has captivated investors to suppress logic for hopes of a big exit. I do not dislike Dario personally, however his philosophies are childish and he has convinced LessThinkers to follow him over the cliff. No doubt all with the best of intentions to save us from our selves because they “know better”. The outcome of course will not be what their cos-play of a philosophy: “we are like the nuclear scientists in the manhattan project making ‘the bomb’” now has the general hard working and very stressed out rest of the world, angry and freaked out. The problem is clear when you drive across America and talk to common folks. THEY LOVED AI TWO YEARS ago. Now they have dozens of reasons to hate it. They certainly hate the poster boy and Sam (he is another story). But they will take the words of waning and fear seriously, as I expected and use this fear theater marketing from the LessWrong ivory towers as fuel to burn it all down. I spent most of this summer talking to over 300 random folks around this country and NOT ONE supports the positive things we see with AI here on X every day. NOT ONE. Bankers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, real estate, restaurant workers to high executives. In the promise this technology offered, flooded are the noise of Dario and now the press and politicians filling the mass minds with a guaranteed hatred if the tech. And no, no acceptance as Dario as savior. The meeting the pope and having the Anthropic minion mini Dario give a speech has sent many Catholics off to full hatred of AI. As I said, this can be readjusted but it takes very detailed coordination, communication and money. I did the first half for free right here : identified the problem, much to my demise as many of my colleagues are having a party, rightly so, on the great daily achievements in the industry. You folks have tolerated my obvious posting just about daily on the Anthropic game. Trust me Bro, it makes me no friends with the industry even if they don’t like the company. I am speaking up here because we have 4 months. It will be hard but if understood we have a much better future of clear thinking. If unsuccessful we have a decade of decay and world AI dominance by China, because they have nothing like an Anthropic and if they do get one: BE VERY SCARED BECAUSE THEY HAVE SOMETHING VERY POWERFUL IN AI THEY ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT AND ARE ROLLING UP THE GATES. This is the way of it. I want to be very wrong here but my track record on the future says otherwise. Pray for us.