I guess my autism is getting the best of me. I just listened to the Andreessen interview, and I have a lot of thoughts. Incoming wall of text.

First of all, always want to say that I love @Malice as an interviewer, I truly think he is one of the best because he is actually open-minded but also is smart and has a good BS detector.

I feel like Andreessen is basically just acting as a salesman for AI proliferation. And that's fine if that's what he wants to be. I am firmly on the AI-skeptic side, so you can understand where I am coming from.

Not to overly nitpick, but right off the bad I feel he is throwing shade as those who would anthropomorphize AI, this need for us to "see ourselves in things that aren't human." Ok fine, but his descriptions seem to directly conflict with that sentiment. AI as a mirror of humanity, and a representation of everything people have ever thought or said. These are his descriptions, yet he's also implying it's over-simplifying things to humanize AI. When I run a ...