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Ed Zitron

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I don't care what it thinks because it doesn't think.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I don't see anything about what it says.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

If it tells me I have a good idea, I'm like, I don't care.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I feel nothing.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I think that a lot of people do feel something.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I think when they see these things, compliment them and do an impression of...

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

brainstorming with them which is really just talking to yourself in the mirror which is can help that can help i've done it um i think that it makes them feel good and also your claude code example i think that people feel very good about that and they feel very proficient and it makes them feel capable at something perhaps they were incapable of before

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And thus, if you say to them, well, okay, that's just, that's fine.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

They go, no, no, I'm a big boy.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I think there's something kind of almost childish about it.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Like, no, I'm special.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I'm special.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Why aren't you impressed with...

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And it's something the models are built to do.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

The ingratiation, I think, is important.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

But also, I think that the tech industry has done a really good job over the years of convincing us that everything gets better and better and better, even though it doesn't.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Even though a lot of Google search has got worse.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Facebook's got worse.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Twitter's got worse.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Honestly, I argue many parts of Blue Sky have got worse.