It's a rough combination when people are simultaneously overreaching and uninformed. They want the best of everything, but they don't know what the b… - Paul Graham

In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don’t understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much as force.

Prediction: Established companies will use cherry-picked examples violating broad definitions of AI safety as a way to suppress competition from startups. New technology is always somewhat unreliable, so startups will always be vulnerable to this type of attack.

When people criticize an action on the grounds of the "optics," they're almost always full of shit. All they're really saying is "What you did looks bad." But if they phrased it that way, they'd have to answer the question "Was it actually bad, or not?"