It’s quite terrifying how profoundly mindless these tech bro pseudo-prophets are - apparently incapable of understanding the world around them beyond the silliest level of superficiality, and yet enabled to have an outsized influence on the lives of future generations.
@tzimmer_history These are people who have never voluntarily taken a literature course in their lives, who fundamentally do not believe that literature has value. They must have been exposed to the concept of subtext or unreliable narration at some point, but they weren't listening. At this point people like Sam Altman are only capable of responding to film etc. at the level of agitprop. When education focuses on STEM to the exclusion of all else, it produces people like this.