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If your subfloor is rotting away, do you replace it or put new carpeting on top of it?

The city is polluted. Do we replace the entire city or install air filters? It's mostly a matter of scale.

I'd like air filters, but AI is not air filters in this analogy.

Is GenAI more like cigarettes ("cool factor", but harmful in the long run), or is it more like cars (noisy and creates pollution, but super-convenient and therefore something most people should adopt)?

I still struggle with this every day. Maybe I'll figure it out someday soon...

If the carpet is AI, and the subfloor is everything else, then we're already in the process of putting the new carpet overtop of it

And there's a lot of people telling us we can't afford the time or money to replace the subfloor first

I understand in this case the subfloor is unrestrained and unregulated capitalism.

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