Thanks for your effort in replying too, I cherish these. Agree on the ethics and environmental points, I have nothing to add there!

I do feel that I understand where you’re coming from more now. It seemed like the focus of the argument before was just about the capacity of the tool (which is very interesting, I meant to ask for the numbers and forgot, thanks), so I’m glad we can get more nuanced.

Literacy matters! I struggled to keep this topic limited to video games, I did somewhat disregard the John Henry reference for that reason. I still don’t understand the claim here, though – are you saying that reading is more essential than writing for the purpose of literacy? It’d help me to reword that if you could.

I like the Cambrian explosion allegory because we saw something similar with the printing press and typewriter, and we certainly will here too. I’m coming from a much less realistic point-of-view than I’m sure you are as someone who works in the industry – Pandora’s Box is already open, we can’t hope to ban it or anything similar.