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Garrison Lovely is in the bay

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Garrison Lovely is in the bay

@GarrisonLovely

Author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It (Nation Books, Sept.). Bylines: @NYTimes, @Nature, @BBC + others.

Brooklyn, NY

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Joined September 2011

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@GarrisonLovely
Apr 9
Nearly 3 years ago, I pitched an essay on AI to Jacobin, which became a cover story, which became a book about the biggest project in history: Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It Preorders w/ @orbooks + @thenation ship in May 🧵
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Sep 3, 2024
Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras. Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT 🧵
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@GarrisonLovely
Feb 10, 2025
Wow. OpenAI is attempting to transition to a for profit public benefit corporation. To do so, it needs to take control from the nonprofit board, which needs to be compensated at fair market value. OAI was maybe going to pay <$40B. Musk just made that a lot more complicated!
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@GarrisonLovely
Sep 7, 2023
I finally got a chance to tell a story that I’ve been keeping to myself for 6+ years. My first fulltime job was as a consultant at McKinsey. At the time, it seemed like a dream job—a way to work with brilliant people, learn a lot, and maybe even improve things from the inside 🧵
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@GarrisonLovely
Apr 18, 2024
I can just imagine how happy the author was when he thought of this
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@GarrisonLovely
Nov 13, 2024
Ilya Sutskever, perhaps the most influential proponent of the AI "scaling hypothesis," just told Reuters that scaling has plateaued. This is a big deal! This comes on the heels of a big report that OpenAI's in-development Orion model had disappointing results. 🧵
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@GarrisonLovely
Jul 25, 2025
Anthropic could be bankrupted within the next few months, thanks to last week's barely covered legal ruling, which exposes the AI startup to billions to hundreds of billions in damages for its use of pirated, copyright-protected works.
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@GarrisonLovely
Mar 20, 2025
Gentle reminder that Moore's Law was inspired by 5 datapoints over 7 years.
Christian Keil
@pronounced_kyle
Mar 20, 2025
*taps the sign*
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@GarrisonLovely
Sep 27, 2024
This article is full of bombshells. Excellent reporting by @dseetharaman. The biggest one: OpenAI rushed testing of GPT-4o (already reported), released the model and then subsequently determined the model was too risky to release! I had a scenario like this in a forthcoming...
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Sep 3, 2024
Replying to @GarrisonLovely
Basically, the libertarian charter city startup Próspera made a deal with a corrupt, oppressive post-coup govt in Honduras to get special economic status. This status was the result of court-packing and is wildly unpopular. A democratic govt is trying to undo the deal…
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Sep 3, 2024
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So Silicon Valley billionaires are backing a project that is trying to bankrupt a poor country for reneging on a deal struck with people who have been indicted on corruption, drug trafficking, and weapons charges. These same billionaires want to build superhuman AI ASAP...
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Sep 3, 2024
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In response, Próspera is suing the govt for ⅔ of its annual state budget. An op-ed in Foreign Policy states that the suit’s success “would simply render the country bankrupt.” foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/24/hon… ...
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Sep 3, 2024
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I had never heard of the ICSID, but it sounds like a thought experiment dreamt up by leftists trying to show the absolute worst sides of capitalism...
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Sep 3, 2024
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The longer story appears to be (from the Foreign Policy op-ed): 2009: military coup results in a corrupt and oppressive post-coup govt 2011: This govt decrees special “employment and economic development zones,” called ZEDEs ...
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