John Siracusa

I swear to you, if you listen to the feedback from last episode, everyone was yelling at me about things Marco said.

we are three different people.

I have a different position on this stuff, but it is a complicated issue.

Like I'm saying, there's no one simple answer.

Like if I'm not saying that I don't discount that person's morning articles, that's how a lot of people are really feeling.

Like, but I, the main point I want to get across with all of this, with all this back and forth, all these things is that it actually is complicated and not simply black and white.

And every time I see someone extreme in either position, it just makes me think that they're not interested in, they don't, they don't know enough about the topic because it actually is fairly complicated.

And, you know, it's it's something that we're all going to have to grapple with.

And this is just in the realm of programming, which is a tiny corner of the world of things that people are using chat for.

So, yeah, we've got a challenge ahead of us.

Hopefully it's not like nuclear weapons, but, you know, maybe it's like the version of that that does not destroy the entire planet.

This is part of the reason people hate AI because they're like, the thing I wanted isn't going to get here because AI is stealing all the chips to tell people to have a little Eliza bot tell people about their feelings, which is apparently what the vast majority of the millions and millions of people who use AI every day are doing with it.

And lots of people think that is both not a good idea and bad for people and a waste of electricity and time and resources.

And now I can't get my steam machine.

So again, anti-AI sentiment, like I get where it comes from.

Like it's not, it's not, you know, it's not frivolous.

They're not against AI because they're just mean and someone is paying them to be against AI.

People, there's a lot of things, you know, not in AI's favor, especially since it's like, you know, huge amounts of VC and all the benefits going to the small number of companies and they're doing things in an unsustainable way.

And when this bubble pops, it's going to destroy all our retirement accounts and all that terrible stuff.

And yet none of that negates the fact that it actually can do some useful things in a tiny subset of stuff.