Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang's "Why We're Building Muse" essay: I think it's fascinating that Wang's essay doesn't sound at all like the sterile neutered voice of a Meta executive.
Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang's "Why We're Building Muse" essay:
I think it's fascinating that Wang's essay doesn't sound at all like the sterile neutered voice of a Meta executive.
Wang wrote that Muse "Clears the way and solves all the problems it can until the human part, the wanting and the dreaming, is all that's left." That's dystopic, not utopic.
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Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang's "Why We're Building Muse" essay: I think it's fascinating that Wang's essay doesn't sound at all like the sterile neutered voice of a Meta executive. Wang wrote that Muse "Clears the way and solves all the problems it can until the human part, the wanting and the dreaming, is all that's left." That's dystopic, not utopic.
My take is much closer to Notopoulos's than to Manton Reece's. I think it's his voice, and he really wrote it. I just think the sentiment he's expressing is creepy.
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