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“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

I’d like to expose my childhood self. I recently discovered your YouTube via one of those fake Tumblr post videos and was instanly filled with fear that i would see my own edgy teenager posts, some of which have over half a million notes.

Foodborne illnesses are overpowered because humans are terrible at cause-and-effect. Tummy hurts? Puking, diarrhea? Humans will say oh it's the last thing I ate. WRONG, many of these pathogens can take a day or more to show up. Salmonella usually takes 6-48+ hours for symptoms to develop. Norovirus, 12-48 hours. Depending on the type, E. coli can take 1-8 days.