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You've written and deleted several of these "AI doomer" posts this week. I think you're projecting a deep-rooted personal desire and not really addressing the pragmatic preexisting demand that makes AI important. War, misinformation, automation, fraud, pornography, none of these applications are going away. In many ways, they're more accessible and rewarding than ever before. If you want to hedge a bet on humanity making terrible choices, then AI is a perfectly antifragile investment.

It's not pleasant to imagine the full spectrum of AI applications. The same could be generalized for edtech, defense, surveillance, security and privately-owned prison economics. Alas, they're still with us and immensely lucrative.

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