How to Be a Technology Charlatan

A disappointing waste of an article. The author fixates on AI like it isn't just some passing fad (remember 3D TVs?)(openAI has been around since 2015, it's barely a blip in history's radar!!) and helpfully forgets that progress is still being made literally every where else. I mean, what kind of bullshit argument is this anyway? If you were a mechanic who lived from 1950 to 1970, you could be forgiven for thinking time had stopped on inventing too, given that american cars hadn't become significantly more sophisticated in that time period; you would be still be seeing the same 3 speed Chevrolet Hydramatic and Chrysler Torqueflite transmissions for that entire time period. Anyone can do this; select an arbitrary slice in an arbitrary field and act like the wheel of progress has stopped. It's meaningless and idiotic, and arrogant.

This completely missed the mark that many other fields (as well as electronics and software outside of AI) have actually advanced drastically in this time, and completely missed that scientific advancements move hand in hand with social ones, and the world and particularly america has a lot of work to do on that side too.

This sort of belief that the world runs on the back of great discoveries and not the quiet, unsexy and dedicated work of billions of people to inch society forward, is symptomatic of a lesser mind.

The unveiled swipe at LGBT+ people at the end was also not missed, and I find that as additional evidence of the author as a suboptimal human specimen. A technology charlatan indeed, with only a surface level understanding of the world.