What happens if all of the local datacenter fights across America become way more successful? This functionally seems similar to a data center moratorium, and might actually be easier. My impression is that the vast majority of American AI datacenter fights are operating with basically zero financial help, and remarkably little legal support. I've seen multiple campaigns run by people who basically struggled to raise enough money to even print signs and somehow ended up winning or significantly delaying the project. In the extreme case, what if you just give a $100,000 grant to every single ongoing AI data center fight in America to get them all equipped with great legal and advocacy help? This would cost around $23 million. I think a single medium-sized donor could significantly change the rate of AI data center development in America.

Seems like you can get pretty far by just having current Claude code run for a week. Only problem is that this is prohibitively expensive. If inference costs per model are declining somewhere between 3x-10x+ per year this alone will get economical quite soon. What projects do you have up your sleeve for when this is viable?

Feynman: "You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!'"

It's important for AI companies to be secure against insider threats since the AI itself will be an insider. It's less important to be robust against state actors since this creates bad geopolitical incentives. If you know China can steal the model you train, it becomes less appealing to train it in the first place.