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(2) Steven Godofsky (@sgodofsk) / X

Same.

But people are afraid. Even the folks emitting spittle-spewing jeremiads about how AI doesnโ€™t work know it works. Thatโ€™s why they are so bull-headed in their refusal to admit what is obvious. Their trepidation about and terror of the new world weโ€™re entering causes mental glitches. If AI did not in fact function extremely well no one would care. Because cryptocurrency was garbage it never generated any real backlash. It was a technology in search of a problem that it never found.

On the other hand, AI is going to take over the world. Perhaps literally. That has people doing and saying all sorts of irrational contra-evidential things.