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Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light

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Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light
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Leopold Aschenbrenner, the founder of the ill-fated hedge fund Situational Awareness, held a belief in AI so outrageous that it’s literally galaxy-brained.



According to a new scoop from The Wall Street Journal, the 24-year-old former OpenAI employee wanted to buy entire cosmic realms after he got rich off of AI — as in, yes, galaxies of stars and planets like our Milky Way, or the neighboring Andromeda.



This is something that he’s reportedly been telling people, completely unpr

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