X is where the most optimistic, forward-looking people in tech are found.

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• AI safety worriers and AI optimists both believe AI will be a hugely transformative economic success, unlike the AI-bubble skeptics. MYMatthew Yglesias10 Sept 2026optimism
• America is a country that rewards first-principles thinkers and builders and encourages reinvention despite cynicism. SWswyx5 Jul 2026optimism
• 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. PGPaul Graham1 Sept 2024optimism
• Battery-electric airliners do not work even on optimistic assumptions, and the arithmetic said so before anyone built one. BFBjorn Fehrm2 Apr 2021optimism
• Being optimistic about AI as it currently exists requires a degree of privilege. JCJosh Collinsworth3 Dec 2025optimism

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