also, frankly, RFK's personal story is way less important than the fact that he is going to kill many, many people.

But most generations today have basically been conditioned to believe humanity cannot exist without burning coal, oil and gas, even though all three of them are historically very recent.

Fatalists (whether from the fossil industry or just volunteers) set their mind to helping preserve this belief

Just so its clear: none of this is slam-dunk toxic-positivity BINGO insta post Good News™

shaving a few ppm off coal in this is barely detectable in the ultimate atmospheric co2 ppm as it get mixed around with land-use shifts: we have to make WAY BIGGER changes before this even turns up in ppm

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

And, of course, CC's thesis is that the biggest way tech companies miss the next wave is by being unwilling to cannibalize their cash cows. Example after example in his paper and book were exactly that. Companies insisting that their cash cows were more important than the big new thing.

And so KILLING the value of the ad revenue systems that are funding *waves generally* ALL of the content production on the internet, which is also maybe your most core product and revenue stream. . .

seems insane.

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