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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Just had a shower conversation with myself, and for some reason the crystal meth metaphor (methaphor?) is really coming together in my head.
"Have you even tried some frontier meth?"
"Sure, you can also get energy with exercising, eating well, and structure. But we don't have to live like amish people, now that we can have meth!"
Nationalized Open Weight Models -> State-funded AI dispensory
There's surely a rich bounty of comparisons left to mine.
Knowledge workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your teeth.
Also works for cocaine, I'm noticing.
Might be best as a comeback, if someone compares AI to a pharmaceutical breakthrough like antibiotics.
JWZ.org, February 2026
You could also compare it to the lobotomy, with how much it ruins people's intellect
though the lobotomized themselves weren't among the loudest advocates of the procedure afaik
unlike trepanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning#Voluntary_trepanation