The Hollow Men

Anyone, anything that's sentient deserves that, and so that's where I'm hoping we get to.

Um, if, a- and then maybe I'll give you another option to add, um, but T.S. Eliot once wrote, uh, in his poem The Hollow Men, "This is how the world ends.

Not with a bang, but a whimper." That's what I'm most worried about.

Not that AI will try to do something destructive, that we will use AI and become so reliant, we'll continue to get weaker and weaker and weaker over generations, and we'll keep giving it more to do, and we'll do less, and we'll just wither away, and that is what worries me most.

I'm going with this quote that everybody knows really because people say it all the time.

But I don't know that many people know that it's a T.S. Eliot line from a poem called The Hollow Men.

And the line is just, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.

That's how the end of the season feels to me.

Quiet Please for today is called Very Unimportant Person.

The Hollow Men.

Ever read it? A lot of people were very fond of quoting from it when T.S.

Eliot got the Nobel Prize.

do better.

In his classic poem, The Hollow Man, T.S. Eliot wrote, This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

Will human beings disappear as most other species have? Or will we be saved? The answer might still be in our hands.