The easiest people to trick are those who want to believe something false. - Paul Graham

The spirit of resistance to government,” Jefferson wrote, “is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.

If you're wondering how to design your startup's product so that everyone will want it in 10 years, just do whatever would make your friends want it this week. Otherwise your company won't exist in 10 years anyway.

It would be funny if as AI technology progressed, the legal situation tightened so that they were only trainable on images that were out of copyright, with the result that AI image generators produced very high quality traditional illustrations.