THIS WEEK: WHAT'S A TRILLION DOLLARS BETWEEN FRIENDS?

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💰 A Bet So Big That No One Actually Has The Money

OpenAI and Nvidia made a big announcement this week: a $100B partnership (read investment in OpenAI), primarily to lease Nvidia GPUs, that essentially guarantees 5-year operation on the hardware; allowing them to continue to scale AI infrastructure indefinitely.

What’s interesting to note is that the circular nature of this investment (Nvidia giving OpenAI money to hand right back to them for chips) is sort of Ponzi-esque and will further inflate the economic bubble around AI (to Nvidia’s benefit).

And thank goodness. The future of AI may well depend on playing these monopoly money games. We have a skyrocketing need for chips, data center infrastructure, and power, and we most likely don’t have the money for it.

To put a fine point on this dawning realization: OpenAI also made another huge announcement this week, one so seemingly ludicrous that it begs for criticism, but also may be entirely necessary and inevitable:

Showing off their new datacenter, under construction in Abilene, TX (a great expanse of nothing, perfect for a data center), OpenAI executives shared both excitement about their progress, and more importantly, the scale of their eventual infrastructure plans.

They claim that while the Stargate project (announced by Trump this Spring) targets $500B in investment from big tech, their actual goals are closer to $1 Trillion (with a T!).

Because….what’s a trillion dollars between friends, right?

AI affects us all, but it’s emergence into the world is being lead by a relatively small group of people in tech with a disproportionate influence.

The long-tail of this is almost assuredly a bad thing for society but it may be absolutely essential to maintain a near-term trajectory that allows us all to build our way out of financial collapse.

There is no money for the infrastructure that we need to build the world of tomorrow —but why let a small thing like financial reality keep us from achieving our dreams of dystopia?

⚖️ The Contrast Of Economic Collapse And Infinite Abundance

It’s so hard to tell right now if hyper-inflation is going to cause financial and societal collapse or if AI is going to give us an infinite abundance glitch.

Harder still to make smart bets. But what are you going to do? Bet on collapse?

The big tech social club bros are all building their doomsday bunkers (just in case) while inducing massive, disparity-amplifying social revolutions as a service: displacing jobs, killing industries, and arbitraging our own modeled intelligence back at us.

They’re betting on the future (one they’re going to create), with a side order of cautious contingency planning, and it isn’t exactly a socialist utopia.

And by now, its pretty apparent that our immediate future is their world; and we’re just going to be living in it.

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”

―William Gibson

There’s a very realistic scenario where your quality of life in the future could be measured in tokens. And while tokens are in abundant supply, we’re in gold rush mode because literally anyone can participate.

So, while we can all feel a bit uncomfortable about the short-term implications of tech bro dominance, I suspect this is what it felt like to be adjacent to railroad projects during the 1800s.

You’re either building railroads, or riding on them —and the cost of tickets goes up over time.

Intelligence arbitrage is the new game. Don’t hate the player…

🤖 Get In Losers, We’re Outsourcing Intelligence

I keep hearing the same tired argument from the anti-AI crowd that “you can’t outsource intelligence…”

Yes. You. Can.

That’s exactly what I’m doing when I have GPT-5 design a website instead of paying some dude in India to make a lower quality version of the same thing.

I deeply dislike Yuval Harari but, increasingly, I begrudgingly think he’s right about a two-class system of the future where the bar for a high quality of life is technical proficiency and access to technology.

Not because AI is going to “do all our thinking for us” (only some of us), but because some of us will be doing 10x or 100x the work of a single person working with AI agents.

And some of us are using this emergent technology to build software that replaces us, so we can compete and scale.

Not all of us, clearly.

So it just remains for each of us to decide our path forward in this strange new paradigm where we turn cities like Abilene into giant data centers and build nuclear power plants to run them, and our quality of life is largely dependent on access to the technology they power.

If you want to even up your share of the future, the only way to find harbor on that fast approaching horizon is to be carried by the winds of the zeitgeist and the momentum of the moment.

Lock in, friends. Lock in.

⚙️ The Laboratory: Prompts & Automations

“Humanized” content is all the rage but most of the output from so-called AI Humanizer tools is super low quality, unreadable slop. Not the kind of thing you want to be showing your customers…

The reality is that AI detectors just look for patterns in text that appear heavily in AI generated content and training data. These “bad habits” are pretty easy to avoid if you know the trick.

Claude sounds like Claude. GPT-5 sounds like GPT-5. If you don’t want articles that sound like your favorite chat bot hallucinating a boring story, then you have to give it a unique voice.

Steal my writing assessment prompt (below) and feed it a transcript from a relevant YouTube video or podcast that you like the sound (and feel) of.

Integrate its output (along with the examples it gives) into your content prompt and your output will naturally sound more human.

Here’s what I show in the video (prompot:

✅ How To Select A Good Sample : Use YouTube to find a good quality sample to mimic stylistically.

✅  Generating Writing Instructions: Use my prompt to generate writing instructions in 3 parts (writing style, content tone, and content language).

✅ Integrate Instructions & Examples : Process the writing instructions, keeping the best of them, and integrating them into a content prompt.

Prompt:

role: content strategist 

goal: to assess a writing sample for style, tone, and distinguishing characteristics about language, delivery, and unique writing patterns. 

instructions: create instructions for an AI content generation prompt that are comprehensive, using examples, and detailed stylistic language. capture in specific detail the nuances and unique patterns which lend the sample its conversational appeal. 

Constraints: divide your assessment into 3 parts and give comprehensive detail to each: 

1. writing style 
2. content tone 
3. content language sample:

[sample goes here]

Nathan Binford
AI & Marketing Strategist

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