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I’ll just say, thank you for this this. It is really useful to hear someone who understands a bit about the innovation cycle (see Diffusion of Innovations) – and who tech has been adopted in the past. There are so many echos of it. I get that AI is faster – and everything in the world today is more extreme. This seems to be another example of that extreme.
As someone who won’t use AI AND is knowledgeable about its history and technology, I wonder if my thoughts on the ecological and moral corruption of AI have a place. I also detest how we have let tech bros define “efficiency” as a signifier of good writing. I live for the inefficiency, the struggle, of good writing.