I love Cory, and read much of what he writes, but he is without being fully self-aware about it starting to go down the same road that doomed Chomsky, being s

I love Cory, and read much of what he writes, but he is without being fully self-aware about it starting to go down the same road that doomed Chomsky, being so compelled by a compelling frame of critique, that it necessarily becomes the first and insidiously becomes the only real lens he views things through. One of his tenets is that Technology is Hype. This may be true, but not all technology is hype; and the fact that hype is regularly an outgrowth of other equally intelligence observers finding reason to be excited, is something he is far too breezily dismissive of. I welcome a critical and sardonic voice, and the regular deflation of the over-inflated, but he is starting to predictably be derisive too quickly and too broadly, and to assume bad faith (or naiviety) too widely. He's a smart monkey, but there are other smart monkeys, and AI in specific is one area where he's beginning to genuinely miss the scale of the disequilibrium coming. This is a shame because many of his most passionately-held convictions and campaigns are going to be significantly impacted by AI. He has a window and a pulpit to shine a bright light on the intersections where real change is accelerating or otherwise changing the landscape of some of the things he is most concerned about. He's missing it.