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Welcome to Better Offline. I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

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And as ever, check out the episode notes for merchandise, my newsletter, various links, things that I just write for myself.

I don't actually leave little notes, but maybe I should.

But as promised in my last monologue, we've got a three-part episode this week, and we're talking about

AI boosters, the people who insist, despite very little proof and all evidence to the contrary,

the generative AI is the future, open AI and anthropic are perfectly healthy companies,

and what we're witnessing isn't an inflation of a massive, dangerous bubble that might eat our entire

economy, but rather the emergence of a brand new paradigm in tech

that's just as meaningful as the smartphone and cloud computing revolutions.

I, even saying that out loud makes me feel a little crazy, but yeah, that's what they believe.

These people exist, they're often wrong, in fact, they're mostly wrong, and they're also really,

really annoying. And so as a public public service I'm going to spend the

next three episodes explaining how to talk with them without losing your sanity, will to live or

your ability to operate in society. Now what makes me qualified to do this? Well in the last two years

I've written no less than half a million words with many of them dedicated to breaking both

existent and previous myths about the

state of technology and the tech industry itself. Now let's start with something every critic

is experienced, the massive double standard between those perceived as skeptics and those who are

optimistic or optimists. To be skeptical of AI is to commit yourself to a near constant amount of

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