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You're mixing a bunch of different "people" in the same bag. I'm not the one saying "there's never been anything like this before".

The investment is massive, but not bigger than other projects by an order of magnitude. Major wars were bigger than AI. The dot com bubble was 2-3T dollars.

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If we’re comparing war between entire nations to speculative economic investment than I’m not sure I need to make any more points.

There may not be so much in the way of soldiers in the field guns blazing, but we are very much seeing a 'cold war' emerging with AI at the centre of it. Call it speculative, but the incentives for nations to spend are essentially the same in cold and hot wars.

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