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Explains a lot (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

IMHO Frank Herbert's prediction in Dune is more apt.

Humanity stagnated due to its dependency on thinking machines, almost to humanities demise leading to the Butlerian Jihad and the Great Convention: thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind.

That's what we're facing today: societal cognitive stagnation from outsourcing our reasoning to auto-correct.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    I've been thinking about this quote from God Emperor of Dune a lot lately:

    "What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking - there's the real danger."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If you pay close enough attention on your surroundings you still almost always can find people smarter than yourself in all fields. I doubt AI changed that, besides social isolation. But that was already a problem before.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    The change that "AI" is causing is that people that would have consulted experts now consult an automatic text generator.

    This goes for social media feed algorithms and any artificial curation too.

    Society doesn't collapse because your aunt uses Facebook or autocorrect. It collapses because CxO's and politicians use LLM's trained on The Economist.

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