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Hello and welcome to Better Offline.

I am of course your host, Ed Zittron.

Better Offline. And after a few things, Let's our whole.

And after a few three-part episodes, I had an idea.

What if I did a four-parter?

In all seriousness, I know that this is a little bit long,

but the topic we're about to explore demands quite a bit of depth,

and it isn't something I could really do justice to in a one parter or two

part or I guess even three parter. But let's get into it. Over the last few months, we've felt

the vibes shift downward in an aggressive way, with both Mark Zuckerberg and Clammy Sam Altman

saying that we're in a bubble. In the latter case, said warnings of a bubble are always couched

in rank hypocrisy, as it's always

implied that whoever it is and the companies they represent aren't part of that bubble, but rather

it's other people and other companies making unfortunate decisions.

The thing is, there's really no escape for either of these guys, not for Zarkin, definitely

not for Sam Ormman.

And over the next four episodes, I'm going to make a

comprehensive case for the fact that we're in a bubble and condense everything I've been talking about into one series. And I know I've been all over the place and I get a lot of people saying, oh, well, where did you talk about this? And where did you talk about that? And that's kind of fair when you put out as much as I do. But I'm going to break this down in four episodes. I'm going to give you a

comprehensive argument against the bubble. Well, I mean that four a bubble, I guess, but against generative AI in general. But in this episode, I think it's good to start from the beginning and work our way forward. To track the thread from the origins of ChatGPT to the billions burn building data centers

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