Ed Zitron

And there's something in it for them.

That's the thing.

It's like, I guess maybe it's community they're finding.

Replace AI with God, just like with church, and they would mock whoever was talking about it.

They would mock anyone who took a sign of...

well, this is proof that God exists, but they would look at a meter study and they go, well, that's proof that AGI is coming.

Yeah.

And it's so strange.

And now they're two seconds.

But it's so strange as well.

I've been writing about Silicon Valley bubble recently, this idea that basically the valley itself is a bubble inflating that will burst going back 10, 15 years because they ran out of new ideas, that they've not had anything good, not had a new smartphone or a new app store or a new cloud computing in a while.

And I think that that's what's fed into this as well, because you've got that kind of desperation that we've run out of big ideas and then added this layer of...

fear-mongering plus childish philosophy yeah very like very much like this shit must have hit so this would hit so hard if i was 12 yeah like i was 12 like holy shit yeah oh i'm using this computer today and tomorrow it will be ultra intelligent i'm so smart for finding this first

It's deeply sad.

I didn't think I could be more embarrassed by Silicon Valley.

But the fact that these people are being this weird is, we need to call them weird.

It's actually kind of unsettling as well.

It's unsettling also that you are one of the few people just saying it.

that everyone else is acting like this is normal or rational or in any way logical?

Yeah, that's your job to fix.