AI is like a power tool. If you give a contractor a nail gun instead of a hammer he can build a house faster. If you give someone who has no idea how to build a house a nail gun they’ll just fail at building a house faster than if you only gave them a hammer and they’ll probably hurt themselves.

I wouldn’t give them that much credit. Hanlon’s razor says: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (or incompetence and neglect)”.

Fuck this would’ve been the best day to take the country back! On its semiquincentennial birthday!

I saw him perform two years in a row at the local fairgrounds. The second show he says “For those of you that were here last year… this show is exactly the same!” and it was still great! He’s one of the real ones.

Do you have any further reading material? It feels like we haven’t gotten too far past the point of no return but I suppose once you pass that point, by definition you can’t return. Are we really that close to Snowcrash?