I so very much agree with you... I was first baffled by how unintelligent some parts of the OP managed to come through - while it's still a very nice collection

I so very much agree with you... I was first baffled by how unintelligent some parts of the OP managed to come through - while it's still a very nice collection of woes and unethical lies, which is very valuable in itself. But then, I've read the linked CNN post about Jeff Bezos prohibiting presidential endorsement in Washington Posts and the outrage that has generated. No, this is surely not the author's folly - there must be a more generic problem there... Why do so many people considered intelligent think it's normal practice that newspapers give such a very direct and simple political message, like vote for X. And have been doing it for 40 years. It's normal for newspapers and editors to have clear and mostly stable political views and voice that, but I feel it very weird that they publish something as direct as this one. Just like it's very weird for celebrities (who normally work outside politics) to publicly endorse X or Y. By doing this, you lose focus on what you really want to say, and just simplify politics and communication into a binary question. Is it really needed to ELI3 everything even in politics, even to such a binary degree, and if we don't THAT is the "betrayal of responsibility"? While I'm not a great friend of using the usual left-right distinctions, especially in global settings, but that's not really important (people will see whatever enemies where they want to see, but it's still much better than naming your global enemies after a more specific group/country/religion). Technology can give us hope for new opportunities, that we can receive some "outside help" to change our social constraints. But we shouldn't blame yet another group of people for specific technology failing to solve or address some important issues of society. I wholeheartedly believe it is inevitable to convince as many people of the 8 billion to feel compassion for each other, to save the planet, to give better education and equal chances to live a full life for those who can make use of that and social care to those who need it, and, to work together for such important and clear goals... But business-as-usual will not do that, current recipes of "pluralistic democracies led by wise citizen journalists telling us what to do and think" will not get us there. And that's also a problem for LLMs: mandating guardrails will not make them more useful, and as long as LLM safety and "bias" is about how many people will be offended by their responses, then we're clearly just heading in the same wrong direction of blinding ourselves. (My condolences with you! But having a toddler is a wonderful thing, it gives you hope and a good reason to expect many joy from the future ... even if it doesn't look bright now, cheer up!)