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Sept 7, 1993. It’s a college-oriented chain email that ends with “pass the beer” that a friend who’d just gone to college sent to about 30 people, which caused ancillary reply-all conversations for the next year or so.

So they took out two of the most useful things that LLMs can do.

Revoke launch licenses until NASA gets what they need. Export ban on company and tech. Nationalize launch assets if absolutely necessary. Or at least threaten these things. SpaceX needs starlink, the kind of AI revenue they’d otherwise need is never going to materialize. Force them to play ball.

So the documentary is exactly like every other thing having to do with AI?

In fairness every kind of mass media has been doing that for a century plus. The difference with social media is that it is much more effective.