Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
A chart reportedly from the FT presented three possible AI futures: total catastrophe, unprecedented exponential growth, or a modest 0.2% annual GDP increase.
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Chris Williamson opens with a personal acknowledgment that Robert Wright's The Moral Animal is the most influential book he has ever read, crediting it with launching his entire intellectual trajectory in evolutionary psychology and the study of human nature. He then poses the obvious question: why has a thinker so identified with biological evolution pivoted to writing about artificial intelligence? Wright's answer is two-pronged. First, AI is itself a product of evolution and is actively evolving — a connection most commentators entirely miss. Second, The Moral Animal was fundamentally about the human mind and its built-in moral biases; since AI now does much of what human minds do, the same framework applies. And if humanity is to navigate the AI era wisely, Wright argues, it will have to grapple more successfully with tribalism and self-serving moral cognition — the same psychological territory his earlier work mapped. The stage is set: this conversation is not just about technology, it is about what kind of species we are, and whether we can become better ones in time.
Robert Wright had Eliezer Yudkowsky on his podcast 15 years ago, when Yudkowsky was mid-transition from singularity optimist to AI doomer — and Wright wasn't persuaded then, but is more respectful now.
Bhanu grew SiteGPT to $13,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through organic channels, spending nothing on paid marketing.
More than 1 million people have visited SiteGPT's website since launch in March 2023, all through organic channels.
Approximately 90% of SiteGPT's Google search traffic comes from the free tools Bhanu built, not the main product pages.
Bhanu sold his first SaaS product, Feather, for $250,000 so he could focus fully on the faster-growing SiteGPT.
SiteGPT has generated approximately $500,000 in total revenue since its launch in March 2023.
The average customer lifetime value for SiteGPT is approximately $1,700 to $1,800, which Bhanu considers unusually high.
SiteGPT receives around 50,000 visitors per month, of which about 200 convert to leads and 60 start free trials.
SiteGPT hit $10,000 MRR within its very first month of launch, driven largely by early traction in the AI chatbot space.
Despite strong download numbers, PropGPT could not push past $1,000–$2,000 MRR due to poor product retention.
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