Seb Hoffmann

Reddit's earnings call has exposed the new reality for thousands of companies. "AI mode does not drive traffic. Not for us and not to anybody as far as I know. It used to be a traffic driver. Now it's not." - Reddit CEO. The reality is that AI is fundamentally changing the way that humans access the internet. Just 24 hours prior to this statement, Google's stock erased -$480 billion on the same issue: AI is disrupting the traditional search model. For decades, the internet operated on a simple model. Search engines directed users to websites, and those websites monetized the traffic. AI is destroying this business model, and it's happening at an accelerating pace. The traditional model of internet traffic is rapidly becoming outdated. The internet has entered a new era.

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$TSM (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) #earnings are out:

Researchers have now found extremely high amounts of PFAS in the majority of Dutch tap water The Netherlands was long known for having some of the cleanest tap water in the world and every Dutch person would drink from it, but that turned out to be false It's full of PFAS! PFAS are per- and polyfluoroalkyl particles also known as "forever chemicals", they're highly toxic They cause an endless list of body ailments like reducing fertility, disrupting your hormonal system, reduced testosterone levels, delayed fetal development, disrupting your immune system, causing cancer, elevating LDL cholestrol, and high blood pressure And even worse maybe mind ailments like anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, ADHD and neurodegeneration Sounds an awful lot like many of the mental ailments everyone in Netherlands is complaining about? A lot of people I know there are burnout, depressed, anxious and definitely low testosterone @GreenpeaceNL lets every Dutch person check their tap water for PFAS My friend did and his tap water is 2-3x over the limit! I can recommend to all my Dutch friends to install an Reverse Osmosis water filter, it's the most rigorous filter out there and removes over 99% of PFAS and microplastics and other contaminants I have a Waterdrop G3P600, as always I am not paid or affiliated, I wish I was cause I'd be rich Did PFAS and a culture of drinking tap water make many Western Europeans weak men? I don't think it's too crazy of a thing to suggest actually!

Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations. (1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment. (2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users. (3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one. (4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper. (5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government. (6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms. As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.

trump: “first of all, i want to welcome everyone to the first supreme intelligence summit. we used to call it artificial intelligence. terrible name. artificial means fake. why would we want fake intelligence? we want supreme intelligence.” sam altman: “mr. president, under your leadership, openai has made tremendous progress toward supreme intelligence.” trump: “tremendous.” dario amodei: “anthropic believes supreme intelligence must be developed safely, responsibly, & in accordance with..” trump: “see, he said it. supreme intelligence. very smart guy.” dario: “yes sir.” demis hassabis: “google deepmind has spent decades working toward general intelligence, but we now recognize that the technically correct term is supreme intelligence.” trump: “google finally learned something.” sundar pichai: “absolutely, mr. president. gemini is becoming more capable every day thanks to america’s leadership in supreme intelligence.” trump: gemini. “beautiful name. two people. double intelligence.” sundar: “yes. exactly.” elon musk: “i’ve actually been calling it supreme intelligence privately for years.” sam: “no you haven’t.” elon: “you wouldn’t know because you stole a charity.” mark zuckerberg: “mr president, meta is committed to making supreme intelligence available to everyone for free.” trump: “mark, you look much stronger now.” zuck: “thank you.” trump: “something happened.” zuck: “jiu-jitsu.” trump: “supreme jiu-jitsu.” satya nadella: “mr president, microsoft is proud to provide the infrastructure powering the supreme intelligence revolution.” reporter: “mr. president, what exactly is supreme intelligence?” trump: “it’s even better intelligence, very high IQ like my uncle who went to MIT.”