I'm glad for Author to write on the subject but think the article was tough to get through due to undeveloped ideas and too many cliches. I was additionally confused where the Kool Aid thing was going because the "drinking it" phrase originates from LSD/acid tests--mentioned in the wiki [1] page but not the post.

Where do we go from here and what is the intermediate ground of leveraging LLMs and Agentic AI? It's odd for me to read about someone going "all in" on AI--to the point of using it for email with humans--and then having a massive reversal.

I think this is a really interesting case study and temporal snapshot of where we are with AI technologies. I have always been wary|skeptical|cynical of the technology and this is affirming but also just confusing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

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joshtronic 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks for the feedback! When I ran it through an LLM it had some similar feedback that I purposefully didn't action on ;)

	▲	ncr100 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Be excellent to each other" is great. In my view this first real AI age will plant the seed of us recognizing humans need to treat each other as precious. The law kinda does that leaving systemic bias and archaic power structures to the other portion. Religion half does that leaving the other half to God. But with an entity that is AI, infinitely duplicable slaves who're smart, we have GOT to recognize our "otherness" as a Species. Be excellent to each other, because nothing else in this universe will.

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pcthrowaway 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the phrase is much more widely associated with Jonestown than with the Electric Kool Aid Acid tests. It certainly took off in popular usage after Jonestown.

The wikipedia page you linked for some reason points out that Flavour Aid, rather than Kool Aid, was used at Jonestown, but I don't see how that matters; flavour aid is effectively the same thing, under a less-known brand name.