Kevin Roose on Ed Zitron: right facts, wrong conclusions, like young-earth creationism
zacharynado · x · 2026-10-30
Kevin Roose explains why people listen to AI bear Ed Zitron (Better Offline) despite his poor track record: he knows real facts — what Broadcom is, how a GPU works (though not what 'API' stands for) — but assembles them into an incoherent worldview. Roose likens it to young-earth creationists who know more about carbon dating than laypeople yet perform mental gymnastics to reach wrong conclusions.
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