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for those with more degrees than a protractor

When humans first took control of fire, it solved a bunch of problems. Then?

We ran into newer, more difficult problems - some of the worst suffered by flaming pants fraudsters.¹ Then?

More tools.

This Chat GPT stuff?

It’s a fun tool.

Dangerous they say?

Dangerous for who?

Dangerous that if they make it too powerful that we dumb ass plebs will become better educated and more powerful than before. Dangerous that access to such a powerful tool become democratized and distributed?

Those who have have always feared those with out.

It’s fun to play with. I even got it to write a bit of alliteration in the first footnote using a really lazy prompt.²

But it’s great for more than that.

I was listening to Kevin Kelly - founding editor of Wired talking with Tim Ferris a while back. It was great. Kevin Kelly is brilliant. He didn’t go to university to become a journalist. Back in the seventies, he went to China with a camera. He seems like a remarkable fool - he did it all the wrong way. And in doing so, h…