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snot

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8. I suspect that even many tech workers

Reply to ancianita (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2026, 06:39 PM

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(meaning, even the workers with front-line experience with AI's development and use) overestimate the potential benefits of AI, insofar as most of them are not poets, musicians, or artists and may not fully appreciate the complex nature of and humanity's deep need for authentic creativity in those fields.

(If they had understood those things, they wouldn't have designed AI in the way that they did, as a function that simply ingests masses of data and spits out some kind of syntactically averaged answer. Creativity is nothing if not the opposite of average.)

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Progressives Are Listening to the Wrong People on A.I. [View all] ancianita Tuesday OP

Silicon Valley leadership is largely a group of amoral, soulless fraudsters Whyisthisstillclose Tuesday #1

Largely. So far. Like Schmidt, Thiel, Musk, Altman, and maybe even Gates. But there is hope in our paying attention to ancianita Tuesday #2

Great analysis. Thank you! There is always hope where there are caring people. Whyisthisstillclose Tuesday #3

Just thinking. This isn't a problem we can ignore or overthink. Even as we speak, more youth are living at home ancianita Tuesday #4

ai will eliminate millions of jobs rampartd Tuesday #7

Do the middle and working classes have millions of dollars in disposable income to lobby on K street? progressoid Tuesday #5

Of course not. We don't even pay enough in yearly taxes to compete with AI. Does K Street take AI money? ancianita Tuesday #6

I suspect that even many tech workers snot Tuesday #8

I use AI a lot - it's a great tool, but JustKay Tuesday #9

Is this the NY Times? AZProgressive Tuesday #10

Yes. Along with WIRED, the NYT's been covering AI. ancianita Wednesday #11