No one is delegating their critical thinking to corporations, except professional climate catastrophe deniers, media "spokespeople" who are paid to repeat lies, and bought-and-paid-for politicians.

One of the most transformational things that could happen in politics would be a "misconduct through media" law, where promoting known lies, thinly packaged as entertainment, would be fined at some multiple of the actual harms caused.

> More importantly, when will the common folk stop delegating critical thinking to these corporations?

When were the times when people didn’t outsource the critical thinking to others?

The person who has to buy 3 gallons of gas to make a round trip to work is often suffering the consequences of other people’s (nimbys, congresspeople, traffic “engineers”) decisions, often made decades earlier.

Every time a home isn’t built in Berkeley, SF, or Oakland a car in Vacaville or Stockton gets its wings.

The Center for Tobacco Studies is a top tier research organization. Nick wouldn’t deceive us. Look at that smile!

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/09/1145728/we-are-p...

  If a trillion-dollar company doesn’t want you to be mean to its computer, so be it. “The reality is that these models behave, or at least are supposed to behave, in the way that the model developers want them to behave,” Röttger, the former OpenAI red-teamer, told me. “And however the model developers come up with that set of principles, that is kind of for us, the consumers, to accept.”