I was going to make a belaboured joke post about how I can never remember who Noah Smith is or why he matters, but Wikipedia beat me to it

Everyone is correctly bashing Hoffman's deeply wack personal AI uses cases, but this paragraph comes closest to a confession. Who said anything about "instead" when most humans, adults and children, spend so much of their lives in environments governed through top-down compliance and control?

I'm used to bosses lying and fantasizing to discredit strikes, but this is kind of impressive.

I'm getting annoyed about how it's becoming increasingly difficult to make fun of this stuff

The world according to the NYT: cops can't kill, politicians can't lie, nothing can ever be definitively racist. But "artificial intelligence" can spy, try, and figure things out.

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