Gruber sides with Notopoulos over Manton Reece's take
2 Sep 27 4:21 PM · 2d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 2 of 2
John Gruber writes on Daring Fireball that his own reading of Wang's essay is much closer to Notopoulos's critique than to Manton Reece's more positive interpretation, arguing the essay's vision is 'dystopic, not utopic' even though he believes Wang genuinely wrote it himself.
“My take is much closer to Notopoulos’s than to Manton Reece’s . I think it’s fascinating that Wang’s essay doesn’t sound at all like the sterile neutered voice of a Meta executive.”
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Alexandr Wang Meta AI executiveKatie Notopoulos Writer/commentatorJohn Gruber Daring Fireball writerManton Reece Blogger
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John Gruber followed up about Alexandr Wang’s Muse post on X: "Wang wrote that Muse “Clears the way and solves all the problems it can until the human part, the wanting and the dreaming, is all that’s left.” That’s dystopic, not utopic. It’s the actual creation and doing of things that makes life worthwhile — not just wanting and dreaming about…
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This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap and if you believe for 1 sec that he cares about helping people “spending more time with family” or “opening a bakery” you don't need to wait for AI to kill us; you're stupid enough to drown from looking up at the rain
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