And now the narrative has shifted to doing things fast without understanding. Otherwise you’ll be antiquated and outclassed.
It is true. I feel left behind—like I don’t belong in a world infested with ai slop.
And now the narrative has shifted to doing things fast without understanding. Otherwise you’ll be antiquated and outclassed.
It is true. I feel left behind—like I don’t belong in a world infested with ai slop.
I do agree with what you’ve said here, and you’ve said it very eloquently. But for the sake of my understanding I’m going to play devil’s advocate.
Does a capitalist society really benefit from discouraging free thought? And is to do so a conscious decision by the ruling class, or is it just the nature of the system in general? Libraries, bookshops and newspapers have existed for a long time, and information flows quite freely on the internet. I hate AI, but I struggle to imagine some shadowy cabal created it with the goal to dumb down the population; that feels more like an insidious side effect. Obviously it was created with profit in mind though, and organisations are only to happy to replace workers with AI if it’ll save them some money. The fact that it’s available to the public feels like a way to appease the general population and get us used to its existence more than anything. So we gain some small ‘benefit’ from it whilst it replaces us in the workplace.
Society doesn’t benefit. The people in charge of society do benefit.
Someone who has nothing likes change, because change is how you get something. Once you’re a billionaire…well, you now have a couple billion incentives to keep everything exactly how it is. How it was when you made it to the top.
So it’s a fight between society and the elites. Once the balance of power tips in the favor of the elites, society begins to stagnate. In some cases, because at a certain point getting more billions won’t make a dent in your power the same way that removing money from the working class and making them more desperate and dependent does.
Carlin can answer this.
https://youtu.be/tetndXjHG1U
The major thing that has changed since he said this is that people are noticing now and people are caring and most importantly people are organizing.
It’s not a shadowy Cabal it’s 40 years of Republicans attacking education with shitty policy. It was no child left behind… It was refusing to update curriculum. It was our weird obsession with sports over education. It’s way easier to trick dumb people into voting for a felon and ignoring the constitution for four years