Ascension to AI plays a quasi-religious, soteriological role in the world of the book.

Right now, we seem to be shambling toward a war which would hit globalized industrial processes very hard. Buying decent hardware now might wind up looking like good insurance against that.

They might not have an answer in mind. They might just be exploring how you adapt to new tools and methods.

I have a nonlinear attention mechanism which seems to improve data efficiency, but it's slow. I'm trying to learn the python CuTe DSL to speed it up.

I'm also reading Principles and Practice of Deep Representation Learning, Or: A Mathematical Theory of Memory.

> Often this is for good reasons: governments have grave powers, and it’s usually for the best that they aren’t used too hastily.

"Don't mention the (Iran) War!"

That doesn’t seem beyond Elon’s capacity to rationalise.

Common sense and rationality go out the window in corrupt, unregulated environments with perverse incentives.

> nearly 30 students in CS 10 were caught cheating on take-home exams in spring 2026.

You'd have to be really lazy and disrespectful, to get caught cheating on a take-home exam...

I thought one of the advantages of Glasswing was that it could produce a PoC for you. Was it producing working PoC's?

The headwinds are way worse now, though. Oil is choked, war is brewing, and corruption is at an all-time high.