Did you ever read Errol Morris talking about Trump and Citizen Kane? That's another fantastic example of someone completely missing the message. lithub.com/erroll-morri...

Belushi and Aykroyd's "Neighbors" may also be worth a watch. It is incredibly bad.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.

Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Yup

Quite a few Conservative party signs around Point Grey. I've yet to see a Liberal yard sign.

when you don't give a shit about the consequences of breaking a promise then sure go for it. people need to understand: it's not the technology, it's not the software, it's _people making decisions_

you can totally "do a rewrite" in 3 mo if you don't care if it doesn't work for a bunch of people