Have We Ever Lived in a "Shared Reality"?
On algorithmically-driven societal division.
The bursting of the AI bubble can’t come soon enough. Between a new report that 95% of AI pilots haven’t made money, several big research papers (including from Apple and ASU) that prove LLMs don’t actually “reason” (something we’ve known for a while), Meta halting AI-related hiring, and the multiple victories from working people in stopping new data centers being built in their neighborhoods, I’m optimistic about the prospect of going more than 48 consecutive hours without hearing about the subject of AI.
Sure, the economy will probably collapse. But if it means that I get to stop hearing think pieces about people falling in love with AI that fail to address the root problem of why it’s happening, the better.
In particular, one essay I’ve read in the past week has rubbed me the wrong way, and I’d like to address that here. Its thesis is one that I mostly agree with, but I differ in one crucial way.
