If success depends on the people involved, some teams will get good results and others will get bad results, and there’s no contradiction. But it also means the results don’t generalize. [1]

To avoid coercion, you might need to start a new team and staff it with volunteers willing to give it a go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_validity

oh of course, to discredit both his least favourite idea and socialism together the yuppie always picks the most outdated strawmen

the thing is, any ideology whatsoever (capitalism, rationalism, communism, religion - anything) has the utopian asymptotic unachievable point, its the inherent feature of the ideology and human mind in search of a sublime itself + some rituals around forming common knowledge

I haven't read the passage fully, but if it does make a point that the current ai crowd invokes the "you have to try harder" argument for coercion and therefore the ai push is invalid -- that passage in itself is irrelevant, you are adressing the wrong flaws, not that of the ideology itself, but only the one you personally does not like: an honest move, but a mediocre one.