Leopold Aschenbrenner was dubbed the “Nostradamus of AI." His spectacular $35 billion loss "reveals how eager Silicon Valley is to invest its billions in the dubious hands of a kid who confidently proclaims what he doesn’t actually know," writes Theo Baker.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Leopold Aschenbrenner was dubbed the “Nostradamus of AI." His spectacular $34 billion loss "reveals how eager Silicon Valley is to invest its billions in the dubious hands of a kid who confidently proclaims what he doesn’t actually know" writes Theo Baker. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“A young savant known as the “Nostradamus of AI” built a multibillion-dollar AI hedge fund—then watched it all collapse in a matter of days,” Theo Baker reports.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
It’s a greatest hits of douchebags running through this article.
Kid worked for Sam Bankman Fried, but still got to do his own hedge fund in his early 20s.
The tech bros aren’t the best nor the brightest; we shouldn’t be entrusting them with the economy and the future of humanity.
Leopold Aschenbrenner was dubbed the “Nostradamus of AI." His spectacular $35billion loss "reveals how eager Silicon Valley is to invest its billions in the dubious hands of a kid who confidently proclaims what he doesn’t actually know" writes Theo Baker. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Maybe OpenAI is claiming it's achieved AGI not because they're lying for the market but because their entire self-identity will collapse if it's not true.
(Which, natch, it is not.)
Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug, but I keep thinking that most investors are desperately looking for places to put their money and are thus susceptible to compelling, yet unsubstantiated, stories of a new wunderkind who will show them the way
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
it has never been more clear to me that the "AGI-pilled" are basically an end-times cult, that has all of the money and very few restrictions on power
it does not have to be this way.
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I wish I had this much money so I could think about doing shit like this -- and then NOT do it.
"[One] told me about attending 'Iliad wrestling parties,' where people would drink wine, read passages from The Iliad, strip naked, and grapple with one another."
From The Atlantic: archive.is/aH4Vv
Където и да погледнеш, хора с психични отклонения си играят на казино с милиарди.
Скоро техбротата ще го обявят за "полезен опит".
Move fast and break... the economy...