AGI Strategies

person

Mike Solana

Pirate Wires founder; tech contrarian

Founder of Pirate Wires, a contrarian tech newsletter. Influential voice in Silicon Valley anti-doomer / accelerationist culture.

current Founder, Pirate Wires

Strategy positions

Accelerationendorses

Build faster; delay costs more than capability

Frames AI safety advocates as captured by political and economic incumbency. Pro-acceleration cultural voice.

The 'AI is going to kill us' people are remarkably aligned with the 'AI should be regulated by us' people. Convenient.
blogPirate Wires· Pirate Wires· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Mike Solana's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Aditya Ramesh

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    OpenAI DALL·E creator

  • Albert Gu

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CMU; Mamba and structured state-space models

  • Alec Radford

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    OpenAI; lead author of GPT, Whisper, CLIP

  • Ashish Vaswani

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Co-founder Essential AI; lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need'

  • Brian Chau

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Executive Director of Alliance for the Future

  • Charlie Snell

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UC Berkeley; LLM efficiency and inference compute

Record last updated 2026-04-25.