alt Hacker NewsNo it's not. Even if the guy has valid points, it's shit writing. The first paragraph of any piece of text should be a summary so that the reader can decide whether to move forward or fuck off. Here the author says "if you follow me like apostles followed Jesus then please stay, if you don't then fuck off, I have zero interest convincing you to stay" a'igt, I bounce.
Reminds me of literature lessons in high school where the teacher would explain why given book is exceptionally important while for me it was exceptionally boring but I had to take part in this theatre where I need to pretend that the book is indeed flawless.
The true gem of irony is that the author could really benefit from an LLM which could review his text before publishing. It's not 1920 where people read everything they have access to multiple times over and over because text on its own is rare. It's 2026 and before I engage with your work, you need to convince me that it's not slop.
I am not here to tell you what to like or not, but doing my English Literature 'O' and 'A' levels were among my favourite parts of all my schooling, and even the books and plays and poems that I forced myself to wade through and hated have informed me for the rest of my life. Poems I hated at 15 I realised I loved deeply 30 or 40 years later.
And I really loved this essay. It's the single best piece of writing on "AI" I have read yet.
Everything you say, I disagree with.