Joseph Norman(@normonics):It's really wild that the nerds who pushed ALL CHANGE IS PROGRESS pedal-to-the-metalism for decades and decades are all of a sudden discovering Chesterton's fence when it is THEIR ego on the line. Nah. You don't get to spare yourselves while having already run roughshod over everything and everyone else. AI can truly be a decentralizing force. In many ways it is a much more organic technology than the industrial and digital revolutions that came before it.

2026.09.20 21:36

It's really wild that the nerds who pushed ALL CHANGE IS PROGRESS pedal-to-the-metalism for decades and decades are all of a sudden discovering Chesterton's fence when it is THEIR ego on the line. Nah. You don't get to spare yourselves while having already run roughshod over everything and everyone else. AI can truly be a decentralizing force. In many ways it is a much more organic technology than the industrial and digital revolutions that came before it.

Haider.@haider1

2026.09.19 17:50

Mathematician Terence Tao: "we have to slow down AI. the pace is insane, and there's no reason to be this fast — no reason at all" It's amazing how willing we are to change everything without any idea what happens afterward These are extremely nonlinear dynamics