In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that
People who don’t understand it are easily mesmerized by how it seems so smart. If it can fool me, they reason, imagine what it will be like later /after people make it even better/
But seeming like something isn’t the same as having all the characteristics of that thing.
We are doomed