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Silicon Valley’s startup model encourages “a fake it until you make it” strategy: Pretend to be successful to attract the coders, venture capitalists and customers that bring actual success.

If she wanted the model to be replicated, he told her, it needed a capitalist backbone.

Man-soo is a constant gardener who uses strong wires to twist roots and branches as he needs; their later use suggests the unnatural shapes into which the capitalist system twists humans.

Like all these other capitalist vultures, OpenAI’s plans wouldn’t just be exploiting lonely men, but would actively be making the problem worse.

What happens to the AI trade right now depends on the confidence of this relatively small group of venture capitalists, corporate CEOs, and private-equity executives.