There's also a lot of AI fetishism going on here as well.

Like, oh, we'll fight coronavirus with AI.

But to me, that's just more hype. I mean,

I have my explanation for why that is based on how AI is actually very good for calibrating factory

machinery. But I want to hear what you have to say. Yeah, I mean, I think this is a case of

Silicon Valley people seeing a political problem and assuming it's a technical problem. And like,

in this case, what problems, the problems that we actually have in responding to coronavirus have

more to do with just like the complete failure of our, you know, existing political structures to

respond like in a reasonable way.

And, you know, in the U.S., like, we're seeing quite a wide variety of different responses from like local, state, and federal levels.

And, you know, the biggest problem I would say is just like the health care system.

The health care system is total bullshit.

This system was never designed to actually take care of people during a

pandemic. And like, it's not obviously. And, you know, in a way, I can't really blame people

in Silicon Valley for like trying to put their energy towards COVID-19 as opposed to whatever,

you know, enterprise marketing software they would be working on stead. It's maybe like a net win

for the industry that we're not having new features developed for things like that. But at the same time, I think it's

the fact that if people actually believe that this is the best use of their time, then it speaks

to this kind of tragic failure of imagination. It's really like narrowing of the political

horizons where the only possibilities they imagine are either this

failed state and this like, you know, this political power vacuum where you have private

companies doing everything. Or you have like, I don't know, tech companies rising to prominence

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