My point is if you’re going to tell the story of technology, tell the whole story. Not just the titular self promoting parts that make you feel good, but the shitty parts too.

Muricans are obsessed with being “happy” in a fake, saccharine way all the time. Philosophical babble does not wave off the reality all tech work has created a huge mess for all the benefits it also brings.

About a year ago I had an email thread going with sama, debating what intelligence even means, why copying the brain is the goal. Eventually it veered off topic, he agreed with my assessment many in tech are unimaginative self promoters not engaged net new output generation. That a whole lot of this is just “government jobs programs”, as I put it, wrapped in happy semantics and hype.