Researcher's take: AI impact will split into material gains and social dumpster fires
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-09
Rex Douglass offers a compact framing of the AI debate: anything material with real-world benefits and costs will benefit, with the market deciding where and how; anything immaterial and social will remain the usual dumpster fire of people fighting over meaningless tastes, cycling for decades. Concise opinion without detailed argumentation.
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