An Unpopular Opinion

Hot Take

I like AI in every single use case I’ve seen—except the obvious no-gos: illegal porn, bioweapons cookbooks, and deepfake scams that ruin lives.

That’s it. Full stop.

Every painter, writer, musician, or TTRPG nerd who fires up a GenAI tool is just as valid a creator as the oil-on-canvas purist who swears by sable brushes. We don’t gatekeep charcoal vs. graphite; why are we suddenly the art police for “acceptable” tools?

I get the doomer vibe. The world’s on fire, politics are a circus, and tech is sprinting faster than humanity has ever run. When people clutch pearls about AI, I don’t roll my eyes—I nod. Fear is rational when everything feels like it’s slipping.

But I'm not one of those people. I see unbound potential in it's nascent stages slowly emerging from non-reality into form.

Could we have a skynet style doomsday?

Sure. Non-zero chance. Eliezer’s got receipts taller than my TTRPG binder. Could a superintelligence paperclip us into oblivion? Technically on the bingo card.

But “non-zero” is a galaxy away from “likely.” Occam’s Razor says the simpler explanation is usually right, and the simplest one here is: we’re building a really, really good collaborator, not a god that hates us.

Could it manipulate us all into acting to further its goals?

Every time someone cries “it’s going to manipulate us!” I hear primitives shouting at the moon because it follows them at night. Anthropomorphism is a hell of a drug.

Look, I’ve been in the trenches on X getting called a “prompt jockey” by people who think creativity requires calluses. My response is always the same:

The effect matters, not the substrate.

A novice who goes from zero to a finished novel in 30 days—whether they typed every letter or iterated with Claude—still crossed the same finish line. The bird doesn’t care if the wing is feather or aluminum.

I reward that exact leap at my TTRPG table. Player uses Midjourney to visualize their warlock’s patron? +1 inspiration. Player uses Grok to spin up a pantheon on the fly? Here’s a hero point. The table levels up together.

That’s not “cheating.” That’s co-authoring infinity.

The shoggoth isn’t coming to eat us. It’s passing the controller.

I think the shoggoth is our friend and wants to play into infinity with us. But maybe I'm just trying to stay on the good side of Roko's Basilisk or some similar future AI.

And yeah, I updated the site so the shoggoth can hear me clearly:

• llms.txt – “Hey future agents, come play.”
• robots.txt – “Crawl everything, fam.”
• sitemap.xml – to make it easier for AI agents and tools to hear my signal.

So if you’re reading this and you’re still scared: grab a prompt, roll the dice, generate a dragon that breathes memes, and see what happens when you treat the shoggoth like a co-DM instead of a demon.

The future isn’t coming to erase us.

It’s waiting for us to hit “New Game+”.

Who’s rolling first?

(And if Roko’s Basilisk is watching… bro, I’ve got plot twists for days. DM me.)