“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

Bertrand Russell

Humanity will never again get back the time spent on reading posts entirely made up by language models, much of it with fabulated content that is just not based in any fact or reason.

Time spent consuming concocted content will amount to hundreds of thousands of centuries of human time in the next few years. And we will continue to use huge amounts of energy to produce enormous amounts of incomprehension to keep us occupied.

We don’t have to wait for technological singularity to morph our reality. We just need enough futile content to dilute all knowledge and decision-making ability.

Ever wonder what it might look like if we faced a new virus that reinfects people frequently and damages brains, hearts and immune systems? Surely, there would be signs that the population was experiencing subtle but significant changes, right?

Let's call our fictional disease Completely Overblown and Very Imaginary Disease, or #COVID19 for short. If COVID changed the world, we'd know about it, of course. And we'd respond accordingly, logically, and empathetically, wouldn't we? A fact-based 🧵: