I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.