thinking about this tweet today. generative AI has done a wonderful thing; now everyone can have their own horse kicking them in the head even if they aren't a billionaire. and now billionaires can have two horses kicking them in the head at all times. a very valuable service
If the working class spoke about redistributing the elite class' wealth the way the elites speak about the coming domination of AI - as something inevitable, as this unstoppable, unavoidable wave of progress - perhaps we can make them as anxious as they're trying to make us.
This reader comment on a NY Times column where Ross Douthat ponders that maybe God is speaking to us through A.I. is an absolute fastball on the corner with movement, and deserves a column. "Lightening was once mysterious too; mystery did not make Zeus correct" is perfect.