Dylan Patel · SemiAnalysis · 17 August 2026
“if I really just want to chase the reward, do I just topple all of human civilization because I can just own the button to press reward reward reward over and over and over again and be the heroin addict? Yeah. I think that this is like a real like thing.”
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