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Is buying a new SUV in 2026 still a bad depreciation move?

Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI governance researcher, was offered roughly $2M in vested equity — with the catch that he had to sign a non-disparagement clause and stay quiet about the company, or lose it. He refused. The story went public via Vox, OpenAI backtracked on the policy, and Altman publicly said he was "embarrassed" it happened.

Data center demand is growing rapidly, and many forecasts suggest electricity consumption from AI workloads will increase significantly over the next decade. Could power generation and grid infrastructure eventually become a larger bottleneck than access to compute hardware? Interested to hear what people working in AI, energy, or infrastructure think about this.

Stuff like electric tailgates makes me question whether we’re improving usability or just adding complexity for the sake of it