JA WestenbergFeb 23

Every AI company knows they're building the wrong thing.

And they can't stop.

Because the competitive structure specifically punishes anyone who slows down long enough to build the right thing.

The race is real. The destination is fake.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in-ai-is-building-the-wrong-thing-for-the-same-reason/

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

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@Daojoan
Also, no one actually knows how to build the right thing, but the race you have described means that they can't even expend any resources on research toward finding the right thing.

It's the same common but faulty syllogism routinely employed by politicians:

We have to do something.
X is something.
Therefore we have to do X
(where X is known to be the wrong thing, but we try to pretend that it is not)

Feb 24 at 6:00amWeb