But I suppose that doesn’t preclude it being used in sinister new ways that don’t require discovery/innovation, which is part of his point.

He’s getting way ahead of the technology. Basic problems: discovery requires re-weighting the consensus connections between areas of content, which LLMs don’t do, and having some understanding of what all the symbols being manipulated MEAN. Wrote about this for NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...

If we truly believe functional forms of verification, deliberation, and accountability are fundamental to healthy democracies, then we need to compete with those systems in the same spaces.

The American elites look largely coopted/afraid/silent, and this is a terrible signal, domestically and abroad.

It's a fucking lie. The "free speech crisis" was just a collection of duct-taped-together anecdotes plucked from obscurity by right-wing media. These people were never against "conformity" or "censorship," they just wanted to promote conservative ideas and crush liberal ones.