Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit

This request is clearly being made by people who don't fly commercial and understand the experience of steerage-class travel.

I’m old enough to remember when interfering with state governments or decisions made by private companies would send conservatives to their fainting couches.

Idiocracy was prophecy.

"Incidentally, it is typical of the early years of the Nazi regime that the whole façade of everyday life remained virtually unchanged. The cinemas, theaters, and cafés were full. [...] The fact that this was possible also speaks against us."

We have a country being run by uncurious tech bros who want to bulldoze through lessons of ethics and history that should be guiding deployment of their discoveries, so yeah let's have more of that, great idea.

/4 In my view, a movement that so transparently rejects the deal — so obviously adopts the policy “the only valid result is I win” — is not entitled to the protections of the votes-instead-of-sticks approach.

They should get the sticks.

So much winning. We are literally -literally- begging for it to stop.

Me too.