Stephen Downes

I mean... he's not wrong. "There were always more people thinking than people allowed to be heard. That is the whole horde. AI has let a few more of them through the gate, and the people on the wall have discovered that being heard was the only thing that ever made them special. So they point. So they scream." Who are 'they'? "The prestige thinkers who cite one another and praise one another, who pass one another around the podcasts and the panels and the conferences, and who have amplified one another for so long that their shared assumptions have started to feel, to them, like the structure of reality." Good article, much tighter than most of his writing generally.