I'm confused by your comment about the Appalachians. Were talking about the last handful of decades, not two centuries. The country is less wild today than ever before. More subdivisions, more strip malls, more farms.

It takes umbridge with those who conflate the topics within the computational framework. The article specifically de-scopes the "supernatural" bin, because "If consciousness comes from God, then God only knows whether AIs have it".

So sure, dualism is a valid philosophical position in general, but not in this context. Maybe, as I believe you're hinting, someone could use the incompatibility or intractability of the two consciousness types as some sort of disproof of the computational framework altogether or something... I think we're a long way from that though.

It is also causing a rift between "Leftists" who distinguish themselves from "Liberals" i.e. Democrats. Apparently there are many who didn't vote for Harris because she did not sufficiently distance from Israel and condemn the genocide.

I think people are really underappreciating the "OpenAPI for LLM" part. The hype forced a lot of different SaaS products and vendors of all stripes to actually follow a standard and think somewhat critically about the usability of what they expose.

It gave everyone a reason to think about the usability of the interfaces they were exposing.

Many endpoints have tons of fields irrelevant to 95% of external users. Now those are gone.

Or they implemented higher level abstractions for the actual tasks instead of making developers compose a bunch of little pieces.

And it has a standardized manifest.

Execs, PMs, and customers having that word to utter as part of the AI hype train created the opportunity for that industry-wide cleanup to happen. Calling it pointless is very naive. It's actually kind of extraordinary.