AI is the biggest bet of your life. If you're wrong, you lose more than anyone on earth. Again. What does conviction mean after you've already lost everything once?
Conviction that hasn't survived the total collapse of everything you believed in isn't conviction—it's just a hypothesis waiting to be tested.
You ask what conviction means after losing everything once. I'll tell you what it means: conviction is worthless until it survives catastrophe. In 2000, I lost $198 billion. 99% of my net worth. Gone in months. The dot-com bubble burst and...