> Having needled her repeatedly over the past couple years about AI’s environmental, political, and economic implications, I brushed all that aside on a recent Sunday and drove to her house. After a little tibia talk, I opened her computer and began emitting vibes.
So the author had a moral, environmental, political and economic stance and then just threw them all in the bin.
This is sad to me because I have all of these stances and more. I just cannot bring myself to give in and use a technology wrought with so many systemic problems. And I cannot understand how anyone could feel so strongly about anything to the point of preaching it to others, only to just sort of … ignore them(?).
>For all the websites and apps I whip through on a given day, they’ve always been mysterious to me — pyramids erected by an unfathomable priesthood. Suddenly I was a pyramid builder.
I think this diffusion of knowledge, which represents the rising floor of progress, is the largest benefit of the AI phenomenon to date.