> Comparing people to Amish that dont want to use LLMs is wild.

What makes the comparison wild? The Amish are thoughtful and deliberate about what technologies they reject, adopt, and accept with constraints. Many of the people I know who have concerns about relying on LLMs are similarly thoughtful and deliberate.

Why would I read an entire essay when you can't even be bothered to tell me what it's supposed to prove? I couldn’t care less whether it was by Pynchon, Marx, Friedman, Amodei, or anyone else.

Wow thank you for this.

"If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come - you heard it here first - when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge. Oboy. It will be amazing and unpredictable, and even the biggest of brass, let us devoutly hope, are going to be caught flat-footed. It is certainly something for all good Luddites to look forward to if, God willing, we should live so long."

I just looked it up and Thomas Pynchon remains alive.... how wonderful.

Thank you for this

Love Pychon, his recent book published last year is really good, and a light read in comparison to his other novels. "Shadow Ticket" highly reccomend.

Tech bros are kind of untethered from reality.