It's weird, gross, and fascinating how both AI and the people boosting AI are obviously just empty puppets for capital. They're bags into which money flows so that money can make more money. There's no thought or intent there, no arguments to respond to. It's all just money going slosh-slosh.

My actual town has a couple of other writers and a famous eugenicist though, go us, but I don't think they went to my high school

Best policy is to treat the package called "AI" like Trump's policies: even if one seems good, everything he does is fundamentally corrupt, illegitimate, and hostile to your own life and freedom, and if you defend a part of it in the abstract, you're endangering yourself and others

What's being sold as "AI" might have uses in a non-hierarchical world where people were genuinely free to experiment with new tech, and our militarized surveillance panopticon might be fine in the hands of an enlightened philosopher-king chosen by Athena herself. But.

I remember watching House and thinking "yeah these shots are weird but I guess they're trying to recreate specific panels from the manga" and then learning there was no manga and taking SAN damage like a Call of Cthulhu investigator