Current reading. I'm 20 pages in and am trying to be generous, but hoo boy there are some huge problems with this book already

@janerosenzweig.bsky.social flagging for you.

Would you do a thread of the problems? I'm curious. And also tend to think AI is marketing flimflam much like crypto.

Have you gotten to the glowing invocation of nineteenth-century match factories yet?

oh no

Wild. A faculty member literally recommended this book to me this morning.

Thanks for this. I’d seen this book, knew it would likely be 😬, but had wondered if I should read it as due diligence. I absolutely do not have it in my right now, based on your thread here.

My university keeps promoting a workshop by the same name and I keep saying “No, and you can’t make me.”

I haven't googled the authors yet but my first question was "hmm, what fields are they from?"

I went to a webinar run by these folks early on and, um...was impressed by their relentless optimism?

Prolly written by AI *giggle*snort*