I remain utterly unconvinced "AI" is going to Take All The Jobs. It's somewhat useful for consolidating information/acting like a smart search engine (like in Magoo's posts above.) But I think it's far more limited than the technoprophets think.
The real danger is stuff like this, which I saw this on one of my infrequent trips into Twittertown:
"AI" is just the newest iteration of the most dangerous thing the Internet has been doing to us all along: enabling us to create our own reality. Miss that dead family member? No problem, just replicate them with AI tools! Feel lonely? We've got a perfect AI girlfriend built to your exact specifications waiting for you. Don't like goyslop capeshit cinema, fellow based man? It's okay, we can make the movie for you!
This is fundamentally the exact same issue as pornography, that it creates a fantasy alternative to reality, where there is nothing to learn, no struggle, no spiritual engagement or growth; just endless self-indulgence and dopamine injections; your own little pocket-universe of un-reality where you can enjoy fifteen minutes of godhood. When the digital facsimile is real enough, there's no longer any incentive to do reality. The sociological damage all this will cause is immense, utterly beyond comprehension, but doesn't lend itself well to quantification and will happen, or has been happening, slowly enough that the impact will be hard to account before it's far too late, before you have a generation so utterly corrupted, broken, and dehumanized that they make Gen Z look like renaissance men in comparison.
The only thing that I think could turn the tide is a massive, organized, almost certainly ruthless and violent grassroots revolt against the technocracy and its products. But if this were actually going to happen, it would have been years ago. The fact that we've never had a Ted 2.0 who flies drones carrying homemade explosives into the World Economic Forum or something like that is proof that The System is working; or at least, working well enough and placating its subjects well enough that it never goes beyond grumbling on the internet. On a more positive note, at least some people are waking up from this, and they're the kinds of people I see visiting my Orthodox parish every week.
The real danger is stuff like this, which I saw this on one of my infrequent trips into Twittertown:
"AI" is just the newest iteration of the most dangerous thing the Internet has been doing to us all along: enabling us to create our own reality. Miss that dead family member? No problem, just replicate them with AI tools! Feel lonely? We've got a perfect AI girlfriend built to your exact specifications waiting for you. Don't like goyslop capeshit cinema, fellow based man? It's okay, we can make the movie for you!
This is fundamentally the exact same issue as pornography, that it creates a fantasy alternative to reality, where there is nothing to learn, no struggle, no spiritual engagement or growth; just endless self-indulgence and dopamine injections; your own little pocket-universe of un-reality where you can enjoy fifteen minutes of godhood. When the digital facsimile is real enough, there's no longer any incentive to do reality. The sociological damage all this will cause is immense, utterly beyond comprehension, but doesn't lend itself well to quantification and will happen, or has been happening, slowly enough that the impact will be hard to account before it's far too late, before you have a generation so utterly corrupted, broken, and dehumanized that they make Gen Z look like renaissance men in comparison.
The only thing that I think could turn the tide is a massive, organized, almost certainly ruthless and violent grassroots revolt against the technocracy and its products. But if this were actually going to happen, it would have been years ago. The fact that we've never had a Ted 2.0 who flies drones carrying homemade explosives into the World Economic Forum or something like that is proof that The System is working; or at least, working well enough and placating its subjects well enough that it never goes beyond grumbling on the internet. On a more positive note, at least some people are waking up from this, and they're the kinds of people I see visiting my Orthodox parish every week.
