Dean W. Ball @deanwball
Dean W. Ball @deanwball · 4h
I know I rail a lot about all the flavors of AI copium but I do empathize.
A few companies are making machines smarter in most ways than humans, and they are going to succeed. The cope is byproduct of an especially immature grieving stage, but all of us are early in our grief.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Dean Ball (AI policy commentator, former Trump administration AI policy staffer) reflecting on "AI copium" as a form of collective grief over AI surpassing human intelligence, framing skeptical/dismissive reactions to AI progress as an early grief-stage defense mechanism. Relevant to Nathan's interest in societal/psychological response to transformative AI and singularity discourse.
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