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Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

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Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

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TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days ago

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Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness just went from $45 billion in assets at the start of July to $10 billion at the start of August after Aschenbrenner had to sell the fund’…

everyone’s a genius in a bubble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9xQT2cPhE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260804-aschenbrenner-bet-everything-on-ai-and-lost - podcast

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If you know german, this is pretty funny. His name literally translates to “ashburner”, and in german, “ash” (asche) is a colloquial term for money
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  nominative determinism strikes again

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