Not a newt

The politicians debating online abuse claim to mean well.

Corollary: Don’t assume you’ll have access to your accounts forever.

Yep. One can definitely have a heated debate about the merits of one process over another, when the outcome is constructive. That’s a rational argument.

Trolls on the other hand get “you’re not arguing in good faith, this conversation is over” and a block.

By cults I refer to the CEOs and influencers proclaiming things like “if you’re not using AI for everything right now then you’re making yourself obsolete.” Then they go and show a few personal anecdotes to support their claim, while at the same time dismissing any and all criticism of LLMs and their products.

Before the AI craze, LLMs were a neat niche academic tool. Then the cults started forming…