Don't anthropomorphize the grass cutter. All social structures, be it for-profit corporation or something else, are ultimately like this. Use the good thing while it is still there, ditch it once they pivot to being assholes. No hard feelings.

These days, AI companies don’t even pretend anymore.

In other words, it was a diversion away from the inevitable.

The sad part was the number of young, naive Google fans taken in by it.

This is not a betrayal, it's a tiny study in Hegelian philosophy: the proposition is built from its negation.

The ideological aspect at play is that it was known and understood from the start that the temptation was there and a clearly defined as a means.

Someone telling you what they don't want to be may be telling you what they want to be.

Politics is rife with such seeming contradictions. The beauty of power is living beyond your own concerns.

> Don't anthropomorphize the grass cutter. All social structures...

What could be more anthropomorphic than "social structures"? Baffling comment.

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