tszzl on the SF spy rumor: insiders stayed quiet to avoid being cut out of the compute/info monopoly
tszzl · x · 2026-11-09
AI researcher tszzl notes this spy story had been circulating as rumor in San Francisco long before it became public. His sharper point: many people knew and stayed silent because revealing it risked being cut out of the monopoly flow of information and compute that defines the AI industry.
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