Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Executives at their customers were saying absurd things about achieving 100x productivity, and this meant that if any executive at the vendor said that these gains were not plausible, it would undermine the credibility of the customer’s executive, be perceived as an attack (or heresy), and possibly result in an enterprise contract cancellation.
If they could all admit the truth at once there might be some hope, but there is no way to coordinate that event.
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making
Ulysses S. Grant, in 1875:
Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence.
The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.