I FINISHED THE ESSAY!!! ✊

Good AI, Bad AI: How to Distinguish Between a Good Idea That Challenges Real Problems and a Bad Idea That Only Virtue Signals

We are currently watching the internet tear itself apart over the metaphysical dread of artificial intelligence, resulting in marginalized groups cannibalizing each other for social credit. By tracing the historical blueprints of respectability politics and legal copyright infringement, this essay provides a functional, actionable framework to escape the doomism. It is a necessary structural guide to separating the human utility of AI from the exploitative nature of the tech industry.

https://open.substack.com/pub/arcwolf/p/good-ai-bad-ai?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

From now on, anyone that comes at me over AI gets a facefull of Teddy Ruxpin. 👿

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"If you wanna know how I write 2-3 books per year, blame the #cognitiveprosthesis of #blogging, which forces me to apply rigor to the #notes I take, and rewards me with a searchable database of everything I've ever found important, while stimulating a constant mnemonic rejuggling of all those thoughts that crystallizes into an endless stream of novel synthetic insights and road-tested ways to express them."
The @pluralistic strategy you'll want to learn.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/28/twiddlehazard/

"Whenever we adopt a #cognitiveprosthesis, there's always someone who overweights the value of the old system of unassisted thinking, while ignoring the cool things we can do with the free capacity we get from replacing our fallible and scarce meat-thinkers with something reproducible and external. No one is immune to this: Socrates thought that reading would make us all stupid because we'd lose the discipline of memorizing all works of literature (ironically, we only know that Socrates thought this because Plato wrote it down)."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/28/twiddlehazard/