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Gonna briefly do an AI take: it used to be possible to have interesting discussions about AI here, and it's got progressively less so. You can't just think AI is bad, or overhyped, you've also got to subscribe to a very particular worst-case scenario about *how* it's bad and how bad it is.

There's a particular view on its environmental damage, psychological damage, and that it's useless, and if you deviate from that here you just end up deluged in yet another debate about those things, instead of the discussion you were trying to have.

I think it's quite noticeable that several thoughtful and serious AI critics now post here much less than they used to. Some have gone back to X (or if they didn't leave, upped their posting there), while others just don't seem to post anywhere very often any more. It's a shame.