The Appeal to Humanity Fallacy
The article argues that appeals to humanity are rhetorical tricks that hide who is included and excluded, and that genuine care must be specified for each individual rather than claimed for an abstract whole.
The article argues that appeals to humanity are rhetorical tricks that hide who is included and excluded, and that genuine care must be specified for each individual rather than claimed for an abstract whole.
Argues protesters should oppose data centers not for taxes, water, or noise, but because closed models fence off public resources and concentrate control over essential compute infrastructure.
Argues that per-use metering destroys AI’s value by making users ration their own curiosity and experimentation, and calls for fixed-cost hardware and cheap, owned compute instead of cloud pay-per-use.
The article argues that if the state treats citizens as too incompetent to vote without tests, the legitimacy of elected governments collapses into either paternalism or a broken democracy.
Argues Zoomers are not lazy: older generations upheld a failing status quo, so the young should reject guilt, build personal capital, and demand structural change instead of harder work.
The article argues that the best place to live is not the one with the strongest economy but the one where a slow, limited government keeps rights frozen and predictable over decades.
Claims expensive AI pricing confines frontier models to businesses and the wealthy, since employers capture productivity gains while personal life gets the weaker cheap models, and argues open-weight inference is the fair alternative.
Western governments increasingly adopt Chinese-style surveillance and control, which the author argues validates the CCP’s model and erodes universal human rights, making the free world authoritarian in practice rather than in name.
Argues that businesses should prefer open models over closed APIs, weighing refusals, outages, terms-of-service changes, and data harvesting against benchmarks, and calls for self-hosting, fine-tuning, and control of runtime parameters.
Defines a government’s proper purpose as expanding citizens’ personal possibilities, arguing that restrictions framed as being for your own good or the collective benefit are a scam and that rights should never be traded for access.