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Critic Faults AI Scaling Advocates for Ignoring Political Economy

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Users attacked a dismissive tweet about Leopold Aschenbrenner's macro thesis with insults and flop predictions while one defended the original work as entirely correct.

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WM Will Manidis@WillManidis

8:32 AM · Jul 17, 2026

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at the risk of no longer having a seat at the popular lunch table, if I were Sam/dario I’d be living and dying based on the recent uptick in search volume in 1-3 zip codes for “Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer” because I think it’s pretty clear how these cards flop now

SA Sands@ssandds

7:18 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@WillManidis Bro you can't write a dismissive tweet like this while the Leopold portfolio is correcting and the Kimi release and Demis memo re-ignites policy debate around the role of the state in AI. The time to question Leopold thought was 6 weeks ago 🤣

EC Ed Chambers@dealsanddrones

7:48 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@WillManidis Leopold Aschenbrenner? The highly autistic husband of Dario’s Chief of Staff? I think I would know if his “macro thesis” blew up.

WM Will Manidis@WillManidis

8:33 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@ssandds this is very pro leopold very anti Leopold derivative thought, the back half of situational awareness is entirely correct it’s just no one has read it

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WM Will Manidis@WillManidis

6:40 AM · Jul 17, 2026

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it’s staggering to me the number of people that have massively reorganized their lives around leopold thought (scaling holds) and have completely failed to consider the political economy that results. “the state will react slowly and late” is incoherent, play it out

WM Will Manidis@WillManidis

8:33 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@ssandds this is very pro leopold very anti Leopold derivative thought, the back half of situational awareness is entirely correct it’s just no one has read it

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WM Will Manidis@WillManidis

6:40 AM · Jul 17, 2026

520TECH

it’s staggering to me the number of people that have massively reorganized their lives around leopold thought (scaling holds) and have completely failed to consider the political economy that results. “the state will react slowly and late” is incoherent, play it out

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