will read this after - ty!

thank you for this! I will read it

my first instinct is: you're right

considering how long the former took and how well the latter worked ... we don't have a lot of good precedents

I don't think that's necessarily the goal of everyone involved but I agree it could be a consequence of their actions.

At least openly, they're all going to insist this is straightforwardly a sort of quasi-libertarian campaign in the name of innovation / progress.

Meta, Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman have collectively thrown "well more" than $100 million into political influence campaigns to "aggressively oppose" any candidates they perceive as enemies of "innovation policy.”

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech...

personally I'm all for appropriating the word "skorts"

yeah I wonder about this. it's something I'd like to dig into more and report on. tons of people are like "it helps me write functional code faster & document it better, *because* I'm so knowledgeable & can evaluate its output" but that doesn't speak to its broader / systemic effects

I really don't hear that so much anymore

definitely not advocating for vibe-anything

well for one, crowding out of investment in pretty much everything else

it's definitely made doing crimes so much easier

my larger point tho is there are good reasons they are mad -- and as someone who covers this deeply, I could cite all sorts of things that are a consequence of this bubble in investment and building that are hugely negative

tech is political

I think this is pretty common! I contain both of these wolves; for professional reasons I test it out and for psychological reasons I tear it apart and am highly skeptical of AI hustlebros

obligatory note that thinking about this stuff is my primary preoccupation and if you'd like a *measured* take on how today's AI models actually work, and what it is and isn't good for, my book on this is out Jan 27

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782388...

granted -- and the debate about its impacts can go all the way down to any individual work process, it's fractal

An apt historical precedent for AI:

Fritz Haber is both the reason the world can support 8 billion people *and* directly responsible for the mechanized mass slaughter that is modern warfare.

AI is the Haber-Bosch process of our age.

behaviourchangecornwall.co.uk/the-legacy-o...

yes! this is a central tenet of my forthcoming book on AI!