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I feel that you could replace "AI-Saturated Post-Truth World" with any number of technological changes over the last 100 years and find a similar article at tha
by robviren 3y ago
I feel that you could replace "AI-Saturated Post-Truth World" with any number of technological changes over the last 100 years and find a similar article at that time. I am impressed by LLMs and these more powerful AI agents, but I also have confidence that over the course of time their capabilities will become utterly boring and commonplace to my growing kids. In a generation their place in society will be as unspecial as a cell phone. The grander picture of the whole system is that we are building a society utterly incompatible with being a regular human person (The way we existed 3000+ years ago). I have no answer to that other than to identify that we already built a world no one is mentally ready for.
- dcsommer 3y agoSmartphones have dramatically changed the way humans relate to each other, with incredibly profound impact on mental health and social interactions. The negative impact hasn't gone away just because part of the population hasn't seen a different world and can't imagine anything different. The same may be true of LLMs and all the hallucinated information they share. I would respect and listen to what experts in psychology have to say here by default.
- kubectl_h 3y agoAgreed. The argument of "we've always had XYZ and we've done fine" always conveniently ignores acceleration/rate-of-change as a factor -- as if the printing press, radio, tv, internet, computing, mobile revolution, AI etc are distinct events that we "got through" with no relation to each other, when in reality they are just cycles in an ever tightening feedback loop.