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We hold up a mirror and attack the reflection.
AI bans, paid fear campaigns, and the scarcity logic we project onto superintelligence. Know the shark, so every fin-shaped splash doesn't send you running.
First Principles: We Attack the Reflection 🧵 Sources below.
Production notes:
Desalination illustration: Google Gemini, labelled AI-generated on screen.
Motion graphics and Three.js scenes built for First Principles.
Third-party excerpts credited on screen; credit is not a licence.
Clips, continued:
Avengers: Endgame / Marvel:
youtube.com/watch?v=TcMBFSGV…
Hell Grind / Higgsfield AI (AI-generated):
youtube.com/watch?v=CVzfQuC0…
60 Minutes / CBS:
youtube.com/watch?v=1XF-NG_3…
Clips (short excerpts for commentary):
Jaws trailer:
youtube.com/watch?v=U1fu_sA7…
Ocean Ramsey / GoPro:
youtube.com/watch?v=d-1xU0Vf…
Monsters University / Pixar:
youtube.com/watch?v=xBzPioph…
Abundance, deployment and risks:
@demishassabis on @lexfridman #475:
lexfridman.com/demis-hassabi…
And on @60Minutes:
cbsnews.com/news/artificial-…
#HellWithAI's own campaign page lists paid creator collaborations:
racontor.com/campaigns/save-…
These are distinct offers/campaigns, not evidence of one shared funder. Genuine criticism and informed risks still exist.
Paid-messaging sources:
Sabine Hossenfelder's blog:
backreaction.blogspot.com/20…
The Telegraph's reporting:
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Reported paid offers, not proof that all critics are paid:
@TaylorLorenz's first-person account and outreach screenshots:
teapawt.net/TaylorLorenz/status/21…
@skdh: “I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us”
youtube.com/watch?v=lPdmYMHr…
Cinema's compute:
Pixar's Sanjay Bakshi on Monsters University, via GamesBeat:
gamesbeat.com/the-making-of-…
Over 100M CPU-hours. Not a joule-for-joule comparison with AI.
Public attitudes:
@Ipsos AI Monitor 2024:
ipsos.com/en-us/ipsos-ai-mon…
Stanford AI Index 2025, ch. 8:
hai.stanford.edu/assets/file…
China's sample skews more urban/connected.
Google's measured Gemini inference footprint (a specific workload, not a universal AI figure):
cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
Data-centre context:
LBNL, 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report:
eta-publications.lbl.gov/sit…
All data centres, not AI alone.
The reaction quoted in the episode:
@elonmusk: “It's a Brave New World”
teapawt.net/elonmusk/status/211824…
Water and energy:
USGS irrigation withdrawals:
usgs.gov/mission-areas/water…
IEA, Energy and AI:
iea.org/reports/energy-and-a…
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It enhances the polygons that already exist, giving us near photorealistic graphics which we've all wanted for years 🤷🏻♂️
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Elon Musk says money becomes irrelevant once AI and robots make things cheap.
This Deep Dive looks at how that would work for water, food, housing and power, and who owns the robots doing it.
Farms, prefab factories, balcony solar, Optimus.
First Principles · Deep Dive 02
Solar and compute:
BLUETTI youtu.be/y9mWpy_Ux34
Jasonoid youtu.be/0yIfh_i1Z08
Kite Army youtu.be/nonQ71NeUQg
ABC News youtu.be/dh4zIVbEWcs
Pwn2Own 2022, Synacktiv vs Model 3, ZDI youtu.be/ZUs98Z-pIpY
Local model: Qwen3 0.6B on Ollama, offline