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• ↓ An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People
• ↓ Frontier Overhangs
• ↓ 2026.38: Doomforce
• ↓ Write Things Down
• ↓ Autonomy and Innovation
• ↓ Nvidia’s Risky Business
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"There has been, over the last week, what I think is a healthy debate about the philosophy and psychology that undergirds the views of meaningful segments of the AI community, particularly those obsessed with doomsday scenarios. It is, in the end, difficult to reason with a philosophy that grants equivalent moral weight to not just all beings — human or not — who exist today, but who may ever exist in the future; this tilts the scales in such an absurd fashion towards safetyism that innovation is impossible and freedom is intolerable."

"Worse, it taps into the psychology of religion, where dissent is not brooked and questioning the premise is heresy. I guess that makes me a heretic then: I reject the premise in favor of doubt in our ability to foresee the future, combined with faith in humanity figuring things out along the way. If that leads to the most fantastical doomsday scenario, then I think the State of New Hampshire said it best:"

"I’m referring, of course, to the question of Effective Altruism and the extent to which it is intermingled with Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei’s insistence that We Must Pace the Frontier. I expanded on my objections to some of the philosophical implications in the last | two episodes of Sharp Tech, but Stratechery is a site about strategy and technology, and those angles deserve examination as well."

"Three months ago I explained in Anthropic’s Safety Superpower how the company’s genuine belief in its safety rhetoric conveniently gave it license to pursue extraordinary goals that aligned with its business interests, including aggressive attempts to disintermediate software, collect sacrosanct customer data, and secretly sabotage would-be competitors. This analysis is in a similar vein but from the opposite direction: “Pacing the Frontier” is framed as — and I believe motivated by — a concern about safety, but it also happens to address several distinct problems faced by the frontier labs. These problems take the form of overhangs that have formed by virtue of how rapidly models are improving; slowing model improvement would reduce the overhangs."

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An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People

Frontier Overhangs

2026.38: Doomforce

Write Things Down

Autonomy and Innovation

Nvidia’s Risky Business