Don't Drown the Dream – AI
DON’T DROWN THE DREAM -- AIMiracles happen, tech miracles, steward them thoughtfullyThe Musings of the Big Red CarSep 17, 2026391ShareComes now your Big Red Car with some musings on the issue of AI and not drowning the bloody dream, but I am presenting both sides before I offer a conclusion. Here goes.Mankind has spent 5,000 years trying to create more intelligence.Thanks for reading! Paint by numbers.Now we may have figured out how to manufacture intelligence itself — and right on schedule, somebody wants to regulate the living Hell out of it.Welcome to America, baby.Pump those brakes, Big Red Car, nowThe AI brake-pumpers have five serious arguments:1.
- ▪DON’T DROWN THE DREAM -- AIMiracles happen, tech miracles, steward them thoughtfullyThe Musings of the Big Red CarSep 17, 2026391ShareComes now your Big Red Car with some musings on the issue of AI and not drowning the bloody dream, but I a
- ▪Here goes.Mankind has spent 5,000 years trying to create more intelligence.Thanks for reading!
- ▪Paint by numbers.Now we may have figured out how to manufacture intelligence itself — and right on schedule, somebody wants to regulate the living Hell out of it.Welcome to America, baby.Pump those brakes, Big Red Car, nowThe AI brake-pumpe
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://jeffreylminch.substack.com/p/dont-drown-the-dream-ai |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:46:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T21:58:44.946Z |
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DON’T DROWN THE DREAM -- AIMiracles happen, tech miracles, steward them thoughtfullyThe Musings of the Big Red CarSep 17, 2026391ShareComes now your Big Red Car with some musings on the issue of AI and not drowning the bloody dream, but I am presenting both sides before I offer a conclusion. Here goes.Mankind has spent 5,000 years trying to create more intelligence.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.SubscribeWriting. Libraries. Universities. Science. Computers. The Internet. Paint by numbers.Now we may have figured out how to manufacture intelligence itself — and right on schedule, somebody wants to regulate the living Hell out of it.Welcome to America, baby.Pump those brakes, Big Red Car, nowThe AI brake-pumpers have five serious arguments:1.
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