In fact, folklore is resplendent with stories of simple heroes who defeat seemingly omnipotently powerful beings by simply convincing them to make themselves small and containable, and then simply pressing the stopper closed. Maybe we need more stories to meet this moment. And better readers.

Over on tumblr someone posted this in response to the same observation.

I was thinking about this a lot recently: one of the big step forwards you need to make with any skillset is just sort of being confident enough to get on with it and push past the anxiety. And one of the things LLMs specifically target is soothing that anxiety in a counterproductive way

I don't think Walt Disney was a particularly good person or even a very good artist, but he WAS very willing to spend a shitload of money to develop art and technology to chase his impossible dreams and THAT'S what made Disney actually innovative and interesting.