“An upside-down pyramid held up by a goblin” is such a good description of the current moment. And that the people at the very tip of the pyramid openly admit they don’t fully understand what they’re building, but the honest answer from everyone holding the pyramid up seems to be “yes but the revenue is real so we keep going.” The goblins are almost reassuring by comparison.
Anthropic and OpenAI aren’t in control in the way oil and train magnates were. They are simply the focal point of a networked economy, and can collapse at any moment.
“An upside-down pyramid held up by a goblin” is such a good description of the current moment. And that the people at the very tip of the pyramid openly admit they don’t fully understand what they’re building, but the honest answer from everyone holding the pyramid up seems to be “yes but the revenue is real so we keep going.” The goblins are almost reassuring by comparison.
The percentage job change chart is warped visually by being a percentage change on data center jobs and being posed versus 2022.
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How unprecedented is this in history? I would have to imagine the railroad and oil barons era are perhaps the closest?
Anthropic and OpenAI aren’t in control in the way oil and train magnates were. They are simply the focal point of a networked economy, and can collapse at any moment.