Writing by Viksit Gaur

February 05, 2025

Survival for sale: 3 ways AI turns climate disaster into a business model — without us noticing

When disaster strikes, AI won’t ask who deserves to be saved. It’ll ask: who paid for priority access? There’s an old machine learning story: the U.S. military trained an algorithm to spot enemy tanks. It aced tests but failed in the real world. Why…

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February 04, 2025

Thoughts on Dwarkesh’s essay on fully automated firms: 8 implications of a post AGI world

When expertise becomes copy-paste, the architecture of civilization will no longer built around humans. It’ll be around the servers and power grids that make infinite intelligence possible. Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent recent essay lays out what…

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February 04, 2025

What Kraftwerk did for music, AI will do for engineering: free us to create with empathy

In the 1970s, people thought synthesizers would kill music. Instead, Kraftwerk made it more human. When Kraftwerk released Autobahn in 1974, critics feared the worst. Here was a band ditching traditional instruments for cold, mechanical synths. Wasn…

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February 03, 2025

The future of AI isn't the cloud, its in your pocket. And DeMo just made it possible.

We’ve been building AI backwards: training giant models in data centers and squeezing them onto devices. What if the future of AI works the other way around? For years, the AI blueprint has been stuck on repeat: train giant models in billion-dollar…

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February 03, 2025

Writing on substack

I'm experimenting with a more social way of writing on Substack. Follow me there for more. -- If you have any questions or thoughts, don't hesitate to reach out. You can find me as @viksit on Twitter.

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