This is a great piece, Noah. What a smart and interesting guy. I love me a business owner who uses words like interpersonal relationships and morality.   I have so many thoughts, many rooted in a bias of sorts that arose from 35 years of working in a wealthy, white, male-dominated industry that is, generally, high in ruthlessness and low in emotional intelligence. And driven by an over-arching, single-minded obsession with becoming wealthier and more influential.    As for AI, speaking only from a business perspective (not art, or military, or larceny, or all the other ways AI could ruin us), what the author describes in this piece is not unfamiliar to me.   His blog post describes an exaggerated example of a phenomenon I sat back and watched my whole work life, especially with publicly traded companies. High value companies recruit from inside their own gender and class with an extremely narrow educational ecosystem, especially the higher you go up the food chain, so not a lot of diversity of thought. There’s a lot of echo chamber thinking, culling the herd of unbelievers (aka: critical thinkers), and executing to maximize today’s stock price while willfully downplaying long term ramifications (global warming, anyone?). A shocking number of these guys are not deep thinkers, not trailblazers, not long-term consequence driven, and not particularly courageous (as in courageous enough to say “I don’t understand this tool well enough to deploy it at this time”). There’s a lot of promoting of products and ideas they don’t understand. (This is an industry that has maneuvered themselves to curry the favor of a snake oil salesman, funneling billions of dollars to a con artist who is clearly extorting them.)   And of course, because they are the drivers of the economy, we will all suffer the consequences of their greed and stupidity, as has been the case since, probably, the Industrial Revolution. More so this time though, given the magnitude of dollars and people in play.   I do believe that if everyone used AI to augment their companies the way Dad has, it would revolutionize business worldwide. But, realistically, what are the odds of that happening?   BTW, Boop does a lot of writing. (Note to self, have Boop include kids on his email blasts.) He uses Google to confirm data points. He’s sited AI Overview in some of his pieces. When we were out to lunch one day I told him to be aware that AI Overview can be wrong. He was surprised and wanted to know ‘how wrong?’ So I googled it: 10-15% of the time. Which translates into millions of times a day. He was shocked, and motivated to dig deeper going forward.   Just one person’s not very nuanced-based opinion.   … “AI is the future of everything, I am but a vessel for OpenAI to make love to my wife.” 🤭 CLASSIC!

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking