Key Topics:

* Early-stage AI hype vs. real economic impact

* Cultural backlash in creative communities

* Geopolitical and energy constraints on AI scaling

* Job disruption, education failure, and potential social unrest

* Critique of Anthropic’s safety approach and effective altruism ties

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Books:

* Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Binmore

* Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John Von Neumann , Oskar Morgenstern

Links and Resources:

* https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/authors-retract-nature-paper-projecting-high-costs-of-climate-change/

* https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/business/economy/study-climate-damage-retracted.html

* https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/12/04/major-study-on-catastrophic-cost-of-climate-change-retracted-but-revised-figures-remain-al

* https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/anthropic-s-daniela-amodei-safe-ai-will-win-the-market-war

* https://nypost.com/2025/11/09/business/ai-giant-anthropics-ties-to-cult-like-effective-altruism-democrat-megadonors-on-trump-admins-radar/

* https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/anthropic-ceo-trump-sacks-woke.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

* https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/chinese-hackers-use-anthropics-ai-to.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism

* https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia

* https://geopoliticalfutures.com/intellectuals-thugs-russian-revolution/

* https://lexfridman.com/dario-amodei

* https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem

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