Well, I'm laughing a bit. The author has every horror story complaint, but then admits he can't keep his hands off it, either.

It all reminds me of our own endless human creativity. The Neanderthals and the Denisovans, our own nearest cousins, were around for hundreds of thousands of years, yet, (we only have this data for the Neanderthals so far) continued to make the same tools, spear points for hunting mammoths, when there were no mammoths left to hunt.

We, even 30 or 40 thousand years ago, were hooked on innovation. Just look up our stone tools.

Cave art one day, generative AI tomorrow.

Well, that is a bit facetious, but the point I'm thinking about is we have this thing hardwired into our brains, which I refer to in shorthand as metaphor, ie, A=B, and I don't even have to explain it.

That gives us, at least according to me, symbolic language, writing, art, culture, gods and imaginary heroes.

Of course you can't keep your hands off it. You're one of us.