Below is a comment I left on @sylwia-lask's post If AI Existed in 2011, Would We Still Have the Modern Web?, which I thought warranted its own post. Disclaimer on this post: I'm a general cynic with very strong decolonial tendencies. As such, I'm very cynical about "ai" in general, and especially how humanity and conversely capitalism will use it. Please keep that in mind as you read the rest of t