> I think it's a bit reductive to flatten the conversation so much.

Is that because I added a TL;DR line, or my entire post?

> I shouldn't feel ashamed for taking some interest and studying machine learning. I shouldn't feel ashamed for having some degree of cautious optimism - the kind that sees a slightly better world, and not dollar signs. And yet.

I agree with this in general. I didn't mean to criticize having interest in it.

> And the degree of how emotionally charged it is does lead me to think that there's a degree of further discontent

Do you mean the discontent outside the C-suite? If so, yes, I agree with that too. But if we start discussing that, we'll be discussing the larger context of economic policy, what it means to be human, what art is, etc.