> The “this is no different than before!” argument is dismissible on its face. As evidenced by NVDA’s trillion dollar valuation and the hundreds of billions being deployed into AI companies — that’s not because they’re building stuff that makes the world just the same as it was before.

By this logic, you need to worry about me using AI to seduce your mom. Because NVIDIA spent a TRILLION DOLLARS!

> Ah yes, middle school/high school bullies: famously disempowered by things like plausible deniability. The suffering caused by bullying and harassment: powerless in the light of plausible deniability.

If bullies can push things as truth regardless of their merit then false information doesn’t matter.