Seems like an important and timely article. I feel like SV has just become a hostile and quite frankly a "weird" place. I guess it always has been but the empe

Seems like an important and timely article. I feel like SV has just become a hostile and quite frankly a "weird" place. I guess it always has been but the emperor really has no clothes now. Not much can be done honestly. I think the mix between AI and social media is a poisonous and hyper dangerous mind control cocktail which really needs to be shutdown. The big money in SV just seems quite rudderless and out of control. Dangerously out of control. Now we'll just throw some "AI" into the mix and hope for the best. The US government is unlikely to help, they're totally reliant on the tech companies to help win elections so we're in for a very bumpy, hopefully not catastrophic ride while things plays out and hopefully improve. The saddest thing I've seen lately is how addictive YouTube has become for children, it's absolutely disgusting. Yes, we can blame parents but can we really only blame parents? Most adults are addicted themselves and don't even understand why or how it's happening. I've seen kids having tantrums after looking at screens for hours watching rubbish like Minecraft commentary videos. They seem quite distressed in a way I've not really seen before. It's quite honestly disturbing. As a kid, I watched TV, yes, but I watched fairly benign shows and then when it was over, some "boring" adult show would come on like the news, and I'd go outside and play. Not take a device with me. > Today the vast majority of Americans are inclined to fear the tech elite, and the industry’s approval dropped dramatically even before the pandemic. Today’s Valley is a far cry from the life-improving, concrete promise of twentieth-century industrial achievement. People see that tech’s giants reap fortunes from ever greater surveillance and socially destructive social media; tech’s contributions to well-being and economic prosperity are far more difficult to keep front of mind. This has never been further from the truth, I think people are in shock honestly and I do feel like the average tech user is waking up from their addictions, but these companies truly have a mind an inertia of their own now. Good luck to all. We can only remain hopeful and optimistic.