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Inside a Fusion Startup's Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony


Robots! Huge capacitors! A pianist-programmer of impossible skill! One of Silicon Valley's formative figures takes the stage at a wild event.

OK, so Charlotte texts me a picture of Serene (who uses no last name) rendered in an insane dress with cables coming out of her body, informing me that I’ll be playing in a show and that this is part of the design. Earlier in 2024, I was at the Tribeca Film Festival to do a panel with Natasha Lyonne, and Darren Aronofsky says, You gotta come to my partner Alice Lloyd George’s startup showcase. I fully expect people to spend all their time in the future entering long strings of letters and numbers to verify themselves, because we’ll have used AI to, I don’t know, bioengineer flying beetles that confuse Sam Altman’s metal eyeball biometric gadgets.

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