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Arbitrary

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Crazy shit.

Anyway I just finished

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Minute by minute account of a hypothetical nuclear war that begins with a "bolt out of the blue" ICBM launch by North Korea combined with some pretty extensive research and citations. It's a very tight package with the audiobook clocking in at under twelve hours and it's very good. It's a little pants-shittingly terrifying at a few points as an additional wrinkle of nuclear war gets explained that I hadn't previous considered the full ramifications of and that wrinkle is another apocalypse on a growing stack of them but that's what I signed up for.

Having seen A House of Dynamite it's pretty obvious theft but that movie is cheap trash. It ends before the NK strike even happens and this goes all the way to a cascading nuclear war involving errybody.
 
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Im about halfway through this. Good read so far, she was a journalist embedded in OpenAi in 2022 and has good insights into the key players.

There's not much technical detail here, it's primarily about the leaders and buisness dealings. The meteoric rise of these companies is crazy... huge amounts of capital invesment and a lot of very cult-like behaviors percolate through the organizations as it becomes clear which way the winds are blowing.

Paints a colorful picture of Sam Altman and Elon Musk. The infighting and plays for power are juicy. Highly recommend.
 
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