Worked for who? Because behind the Valley I see a trail of broken technooptimist promises ranging from the ones so egregious their peddlers are in prison (SBF, Holmes), I see entire continents and cultures at war with a fundamentally antidemocratic surveilanvce capitalism, I see an entire clique of TESCREAL/EA psychos in positions of terrifying power, openly on the record about antidemocratic, authoritarian agendas (Thiel and everyone who has ever shaken his hand, Yarvin at the "quiet part out loud" end of the spectrum, pmarca and pg in the sort of edgy libertarian / still wants some mainstream acceptability tension zone, down to gladhanding collaborators of every stripe in the Roganverse, every shade in between: all rich, all anti competition, all anti democrocratic institution).

I see all of the CEOs lined up at the inauguration kissing the ring, buying up the commons that the DoD and Bell Labs built with taxpayer dollars into oligarchic empires straight out of Russia circa 92-94.

And at the apex of the Altman Era you have the swindler in chief peddling the absurdity that we weren't deep into the LLM asymptote a fucking year ago with implications ranging from wild infringements on the power of states to enforce their regulations in conflict with "AI Innovation..." /cuts to Amodei/ ..."to stay competitive with China!"

This is a fucking disaster for everyone but a small clique of Battery-frequenting bottom feeders who a better generation would have put in prison for crimes innumerable.

But it works for a few people. Those people are building bunkers though, and its not to keep out rogue AI.