A brand new way to put people out of work
An excerpt from my first piece for The San Francisco Standard:
DeepSeek is a wake-up call for America. An alarm bell for the nation. We cannot allow another country’s technological advances to endanger and replace wide swaths of the U.S. workforce. That’s our job. Only we can do that.
As DeepSeek, China’s open-source large language learning model, surpasses ChatGPT on the Apple App Store, rocking Silicon Valley and upending the stock market, one thing has become clear: We must find a way to stop this new AI before it takes our current AI’s job of taking away the rest of our jobs.
How did we get here? It’s simple, really. Our best and brightest were gathered together by our richest and most ruthless in order to create something incredible: a brand-new way to put people out of work…
Read the rest this week in The San Francisco Standard. And if you haven’t yet…
Q&A
Q: So… you’re an op-ed writer now?
A: I wouldn’t say that.
Q: Why not?
A: It’s still a piece of satire, it’s just been published in an opinion section.
Q: Satire is opinon.
A: How so?
Q: It’s like a turducken. Opinion baked inside of a joke.
A: But a turducken is a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey. If the opinion is baked inside of the joke, what’s baked inside of the opinion?
Q: A chicken.
A: Got it.
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