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> I don't know why I'm the one writing what I'm writing, and I frequently feel weird that I, a part-time blogger and podcaster, am writing the things that I'm writing.

I can't tell whether this man actually believes that he is the only one critiquing AI? I mean.. I can barely walk 2 feet without tripping over anti-AI blogs, posts, news articles, youtube videos or comments.

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Ed's main critique is about business sustainability -- it's true that there are many articles about AI on IP issues or ethics but he is unique in actually crunching the numbers on profit.

There's Financial Times, Forbes, tons of reddit posts, youtube videos.. I suppose it's possible that he's the only blogger doing this, but as far as I can see he is not the only one crunching profit numbers on the most "visible" company in the world.

The FT have not covered the economics of this in any real detail at all. Not even Alphaville :(

Lots of people are saying "this doesn't work very well", but I think he probably _is_ the main person banging the "this makes no financial sense whatsoever" drum; that bit does seem to get weirdly skimmed over most of the time, even by many AI sceptics.

I think the intersection of people who use AI tools enough to have informed opinions on them, as well as enough understanding of business/finance to critique the economics is very, very small.

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