Dear Sam,
On vendor-financed delusions, circular capital, the $100 billion retreat nobody wants to name, and what it means that the CFO of the world's most important AI project doesn't bother with the money flywheel.
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19 Posts · May 12, 2013 – Feb 24, 2026On vendor-financed delusions, circular capital, the $100 billion retreat nobody wants to name, and what it means that the CFO of the world's most important AI project doesn't bother with the money flywheel.
You preached AI ethics from your personal blog while selling Anthropic's independence to Amazon. Now your 'Constitutional AI' sits on Bezos's property, paying rent."
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