What a feeling it must be, to be that one guy who is not themselves Copernicus, but who is nonetheless apparently uniquely able to discern and explain the Copernican moment in the process of its unfolding!

What a galaxy brain one must have, to be able to sneer down condescendingly at the little people and their presumed misunderstandings of an emerging sociotechnical phenomenon, but to misuse in the process a model from another discipline as the basis of your critique, the misuse of which as a pop-sci metaphor has by this point become an eye-roll-inducing cliche in its own right!

How noble and indefatigable a thinker one must be, to have recently added another book to the barricade of incoherent claims that it’s all the fault of postmodern theorists (whatever “it” might be), and then a few years later to respond to the justifiable collective shrug of the target audience by pouring the old wine of transhumanism into bottles that aren’t even as new as they’re being made out to be!

What a pleasure it must be, to be surrounded by people who will keep telling you how smart you are for just as long as you keep telling them what they want to hear!

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As it seems we’re doing pop psychology, Benjamin, I’d like to suggest that you stop projecting your anxieties onto the rest of the world, and learn to relax your ringpiece a little. It’s OK—when the “AI” money runs out, you’ll find a new grift!

People like you always fucking do, somehow.