Anian Ziegler

Things are really dark right now. We have a new crop of fascists pledging "America First" in the White House. A new series of attacks on immigrants and people of color. Even as someone who expected things to get bad fast, the level of cruelty and destruction being wrought by Donald Trump and the unelected Elon Musk is staggering.

And it feels unstop... See more

What that means is that AI abilities are getting better even as costs are dropping. This graph shows how quickly this trend has advanced, mapping the capability of AI on the y axis and the logarithmically decreasing costs on the x axis. When GPT-4 came out it was around $50 per million tokens (roughly a word), now it costs around 12 cents per milli... See more

That’s the first half of the lecture: the idea that true leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions.