Well-crafted.

Much like "Value(s)", this speech was studiously. . .Rorschach-y (yes, it's a word). A lot of words, but little coherence when considered as a whole. Enough coherence within parts for people of all stripes to see something of "themselves" in segments. Honestly, Value(s) is a masterclass in this.

Please post your findings when they're available. LOL.

The scale-at-any-cost paradigm will not last long enough to get a single shovel in the ground for “new power plants”. Also, these companies are buying $70k chips that they can’t afford to plug in because they lose money the second they’re operational. Come on now.

Bootstraps and rugged individualism and whatnot.

And yet it can't "remember" in any useful way the context I gave it three prompts ago. Aside from all the damage (environmental, labour, ethical, etc.) it's just an incredibly narrow and brittle technology. Garbage, really.

I also must recommend David Gerrard at www.pivot-to-ai.com , who really does yeoman's work. Merchant had the heavier lift, with Blood in the Machine, but there's a bit grassroots effort to throw sand in the gears of this fascistic tech known as "gen AI".

Ridicule as praxis!

I’m also seeing these tactics and failures at work continuously. Such a great book, this one! More than once (at work, to my team) I have said something like “the reason I ridicule it [our “AI tools”] so much is because it’s ridiculous.” I vaguely recall it being from Hanna and Bender.

"Traumatizing" them. My goodness.

Hahahahahahahaha!! Thanks for this. It took me a moment, but I lol’d.