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Read this korrent: Data center expansion will be significantly smaller than some market optimists predict due to code efficiencies.
Data center expansion will be significantly smaller than some market optimists predict due to code efficiencies.
Last stated a month ago
20 Sept 2026
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Saul Griffith — holds since 2026-09-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI safety worriers and AI optimists both believe AI will be a hugely transformative economic success, unlike the AI-bubble skeptics. — tap to centre the map on it
AI safety worriers and AI optimists both believe AI will be a hugely transformative economic success, unlike the AI-bubble skeptics.
Last stated a month ago
10 Sept 2026
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Matthew Yglesias — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: America is a country that rewards first-principles thinkers and builders and encourages reinvention despite cynicism. — tap to centre the map on it
America is a country that rewards first-principles thinkers and builders and encourages reinvention despite cynicism.
Last stated 4 months ago
5 Jul 2026
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swyx — holds since 2026-07-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: As soon as founder mode is an established idea people will misuse it: founders excusing an inability to delegate, and managers deciding to act like founders. — tap to centre the map on it
As soon as founder mode is an established idea people will misuse it: founders excusing an inability to delegate, and managers deciding to act like founders.
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Sept 2024
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Paul Graham — holds since 2024-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Battery-electric airliners do not work even on optimistic assumptions, and the arithmetic said so before anyone built one. — tap to centre the map on it
Battery-electric airliners do not work even on optimistic assumptions, and the arithmetic said so before anyone built one.
Last stated 6 years ago
2 Apr 2021
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Bjorn Fehrm — holds since 2021-04-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being optimistic about AI as it currently exists requires a degree of privilege. — tap to centre the map on it
Being optimistic about AI as it currently exists requires a degree of privilege.
Last stated 11 months ago
3 Dec 2025
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Josh Collinsworth — holds since 2025-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time. — tap to centre the map on it
Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time.
Last stated 2 months ago
23 Aug 2026
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Phillips P. OBrien — holds since 2026-08-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Building a startup requires enough optimism to see past a problem toward a future solution that makes things better. — tap to centre the map on it
Building a startup requires enough optimism to see past a problem toward a future solution that makes things better.
Last stated a year ago
16 Sept 2025
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Jason Evanish — holds since 2025-09-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Connecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do. — tap to centre the map on it
Connecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do.
Last stated a year ago
4 Jun 2025
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Armin Ronacher — holds since 2023-02-17 — tap for who they are
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Armin Ronacher — no longer holds since 2025-06-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company with a huge existing user base can keep funding AI data centers as long as its AI app's download numbers look healthy and it tops the charts, whatever its retention. — tap to centre the map on it
A company with a huge existing user base can keep funding AI data centers as long as its AI app's download numbers look healthy and it tops the charts, whatever its retention.
Last stated 3 days ago
21 Oct 2026
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Ryan Broderick — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A data centre earns its county far more tax revenue per gallon of water than a golf course does. — tap to centre the map on it
A data centre earns its county far more tax revenue per gallon of water than a golf course does.
Last stated a year ago
11 Oct 2025
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Andy Masley — holds since 2025-10-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building. — tap to centre the map on it
A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Apr 2024
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-04-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A data centre should be split into independent power blocks fed directly at 1500 volts DC, rather than run through one central distribution system. — tap to centre the map on it
A data centre should be split into independent power blocks fed directly at 1500 volts DC, rather than run through one central distribution system.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Apr 2024
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-04-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A solar-powered data centre can cut its power draw a great deal while giving up very little compute, which is how it survives a run of bad weather. — tap to centre the map on it
A solar-powered data centre can cut its power draw a great deal while giving up very little compute, which is how it survives a run of bad weather.
Last stated a year ago
15 Aug 2025
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2025-08-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI data centers are resulting in lower electricity prices for consumers. — tap to centre the map on it
AI data centers are resulting in lower electricity prices for consumers.
Last stated a month ago
14 Sept 2026
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Elon Musk — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants. — tap to centre the map on it
About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants.
Last stated 7 months ago
13 Mar 2026
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Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one. — tap to centre the map on it
An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Apr 2024
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-04-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model. — tap to centre the map on it
Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model.
Last stated a year ago
2 Sept 2025
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Benedict Evans — holds since 2025-09-02 — tap for who they are
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