Nobody Was Argued Into Loving AI: One Real Problem Converts Skeptics Better Than Any Debate
Pascallisch · x · 2026-11-09
luckeyfaraday observes that everyone he knows who went from anti-AI to pro-AI was convinced not by an argument but by a concrete problem: a child's diagnosis, a landlord's legal letter, an unaffordable website, a cryptic tax notice. They tried AI once, got more help in 20 minutes than institutions had provided in years. His takeaway: you can't debate someone into loving AI — just wait until life hands them a problem, and it always does.
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