Quote: Anil Dash
I agree with the intellectual substance of virtually every common critique of AI. And it's very clear that turning those critiques into a competition about who can frame them in the most scathing way online has done zero to slow down adoption, even if much of that is due to default bundling.
At what point are folks going to try literally any other tactic than condescending rants? Does it matter that LLM apps are at the top of virtually every app store nearly every day because individual people are choosing to download them, and the criticism hasn't been effective in slowing that?
The whole thread (starting here) is worthwhile.
The left side of the political spectrum, which I include myself in, has really taken a turn towards puritanical moralizing of the individual. "Critique" as a social media activist's default "content" seems to bias many of them towards actually-conservative outcomes, moralizing their own choices leading towards an individual-focus in their readers, rather than on attacking the systems which constrain those individual choices. Dash is also pointing at the "boycott is the only direct action" unconscious thought stopping cliche, where all action gets shunted down a moralized boycott instead of any potentially helpful, yet impure action. We really have lost everything we learned when unions were formed.