> The most charitable way I can read those paragraphs is that he's vaguely alluding to a nebulous conspiracy by a cabal of elites, which evokes a specific ideology that cannot be discussed constructively.

If the markets/finance people reward you for saying you are all-in on AI, people with much of their compensation dependent on the markets (i.e. executives) will claim that AI is driving amazing results.

Like, I find AI useful in lots of places and use these tools daily, but I don't see how the pure play model companies can deliver a good return for their investors.

Unlike ed though, I do think that we'll find good uses for all the compute and (hopefully) the energy infrastructure being built out for this compute.