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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I don't necessarily hate this, because you can easily read it as highlighting the AI systems' lack of agency. Rather than posing it as a threat for what it's going to do, it poses a threat for what it doesn't do that believers expect it to: actually exercise judgement and thought.
Ed: hadn't realized that the guy we were taking seriously was the author of Sapiens. Gonna have to assume I was extending entirely too much charity in my assessment.