Posted on 02/14/2026 6:55:57 PM PST by Mariner
While AI hyperscalers are committing hundreds of billions of dollar per year on capital expenditures, Anthropic’s spending plans are more cautious by comparison.
But cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei said the reason for his more measured approach is because even a slight miscalculation could sink the company.
In an interview with Dwarkesh Patel on Friday, the podcaster asked why Anthropic, the developer of the Claude chatbot, doesn’t spend more aggressively, given Amodei’s earlier prediction that an AI data center could one day be a “country of geniuses.”
Amodei replied that while he is confident the technical milestone is achievable soon, he’s less certain about the timing of the economic returns.
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Most people have a natural aversion to AI. It's a great tool if you need it, but little else.
Imagine 50 million people in the US whose jobs are at risk and imagine how much hostility that engenders.
Adoption will be slow and early adopters will suffer greatly.
I see this a little differently. I think this might play out like the Dot Com bubble of the 1990s. Lots of start-ups failed, and a lot of people lost money. But PCs and the Internet didn’t go away and they got bigger and bigger.
There may be an AI shake-out and people may lose a lot of money. But I think AI is coming fast and think it will change everything. Maybe not “right now”, but you can see it coming.
AI will be ready many years before it’s generally adopted.
Tell AI it must find work for workers it displaces.
The United States of America is by far the leader in AI (thanks to President Trump) and it will remain the case as long as a Republican is President. If a Democrat gets elected then you AI haters will get your wish and the country and world will be taken over by communist AI.
AI is a battleground where the winner takes all. Trump gets it, you AI haters do not get it.
to put it mildly—- AI is shit
Spoken like a true liberal, open your liberal eyes and see what AI is already doing. It’s taking over the world whether your liberal brain chooses to acknowledge that or not.
>> Spoken like a true liberal
Explain why the opinion “AI is shit” is a liberal opinion.
>> [AI is] taking over the world
No hyperbole there! No sir, not a bit.
I have spent quite a bit of time, money and effort using various AI tools over the past few months especially. But my first experience was with an AI software suite about called BrainMaker (by California Scientific Software) which I purchased at Computer City about 30 years ago. It came with a lot of documentation which I still have around here somewhere. https://calsci.com/BrainIndex.html
The core principals were remarkably similar. The primary differences are much larger and more sophisticated databases along with much more powerful computers. But at the time the concept seemed amazing; companies and individuals claimed to be making money in the stock market using the software package. It received many awards at the time. It seemed like AGI, human like intelligence was just around the corner.
But looking back, this software suite was a data analysis tool and those who made money with it were using their own brains to take advantage of whatever predictive edge this software gave them to make money. But my point is that despite the recent hype and the perceived improvements in current models we still do not know how much this is really going to improve productivity at any level.
AI tools are useful right now and can do some amazing things, and just about everyone I know is already using it at some level with various levels of success. The problem is that the massive amount of hype associated with AI is skewing everyone's perception. This is true of people with very little exposure and people who have spent a lot of time trying to master it.
I have been skeptical about the whole AI thing.
and of course I made my own custom Eliza thing back in late 70s
but in the last year I have seen advances I did not expect.
are we going to see AGI anytime soon? I dont expect that and dont want to, and I do not expect it will impact me before I die.
I feel badly for my children./
If anything, I am an AI proponent, who has spent a great deal of time, effort and money on hardware for running AI models, using powerful Virtual Machines in remote locations and paying for AI services. But I do worry about the $Trillions that have been committed to build massive AI server farms. This is unprecedented and likely will lead to capacity which will far outweigh the actual demands that will be needed. Does this make me an "AI hater"?
I am also curious what experience and knowledge that you have that should make the rest of us take your colorful rhetoric seriously?
HA! I love it!
I think that it is fascinating that you have brought up ELIZA, which is incredibly relevant to any discussion on AI.
ELIZA is a computer program that simulates the behavior of a therapist. This is one of the first programs of its kind developed in 1966 in MIT. This program interacts with
the user in simple English and simulates the presence or talking with a therapist imaginary Doctor.
Though many concepts of Artificial Intelligence were still not developed, ELIZA surprised number of individuals as it attributed human-like feelings to its user.
Eliza responded to what the user input and it could parse a sentence and then present a question in a way that was related to the question. In the early 1960s people were fooled by Eliza. They thought were conversing with a live therapist who was communicating from a second terminal.
your answer came from a primitive ai
the human mind cannot really understand parabolic change, mostly because never before has it been been sustainable.
I hope it is not different this time.
Sorry, I should have proofread my response to you before posting. I mentioned what ELIZA is/was for the benefit of those who are not familiar with the program.
“Most people have a natural aversion to AI. It’s a great tool if you need it, but little else.”
It’s not just AI, it’s robots with AI.
Robots that can do manual work, never sleep or eat or need time off, don’t complain, or get tired, can have all sort of additional sensory capabilies, incredible strength, built in encyclopedic knowledge, etc. etc.
And they can build millions of other robots. And they’re coming!
No job is safe. Not even plumber’s! But maybe it won’t be necessary for humans to have jobs. Robots will produce everything they need and all necessities that humans need, so no human needs to work. Everyone will get SNAP cards with generous cash value replenished monthly, that people can spend as they wish.
As Musk predicted, in a couple of decades human work will be optional - it’ll be like hobbies. I don’t think it’s much of an exaggeration. In a way we’re not that far off already. Today we already have probably 100+ million people that don’t work and live fairly comfortable lives, if you count all the welfare recipients, the fake disabled, the retirees... Much more than that if you count kids.
So everyone will have a retiree’s life. You’ll do whatever you want - travel, play golf, enjoy hobbies... thanks to the comfortable “pension” provided by the robots. Economics as we know it will be a thing of the past. Maybe we’ll be to them what our pets are to us. Economics will be to us what it is to our pets. Behave, learn some tricks and enjoy an easy life.
The big question is, who will control who?
Here is the thing: AI is not an intelligence. It is a comical impersonation of true intelligence. A mockery. All AI does is make people yearn for humanity. It’s like today, when you call a company, and a robot says- “Beep-boop, press 4 for english, press four for blah blah “ (pressing button) “ Error, I’m sorry, goodbye.”
They are large language models which absorb the internet as its “mind.” It’s “memories.”. Think about that. The internet is 95% porn, with some cat videos thrown in. That’s one F&$@ed-up mind.
If you could make a body of flesh, and crown it with one of these AI “minds,” that person would wake up and you would avoid him/her/it. Sure, he could calculate numbers pretty fast, but you would say to yourself— “Wow, that is one weird cat.”
these companies are burning through billions of dollars on these beep-boop tulips, money they don’t got, and they are going to end up royally screwed.
Yeah, jobs will be taken because most jobs are pretty rudimentary, but people will end up thirsting for quality. Real creativity, not the machine creativity which is shit. You can’t fake creativity. You can put 1000 monkeys on typewriters and publish their work too
“...Robots will produce everything they need
and all necessities that humans need,
so no human needs to work.
Everyone will get SNAP cards with generous cash value
replenished monthly, that people can spend as they wish...”
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Why would humans need money?
“Who” are they paying?
What is a robot going to do with money?
Tell AI it must find work for workers it displaces.
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AI sez: “Tattooing ‘666’ on people will be the growth industry for displaced workers.”
Quote-But my point is that despite the recent hype and the perceived improvements in current models we still do not know how much this is really going to improve productivity at any level.__
Interesting point.
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