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That's a sobering thought right there: that one people's mythos, the foundations of their culture, could trace back to... a bunch of randos in the early printin
by TeMPOraL 2y ago
That's a sobering thought right there: that one people's mythos, the foundations of their culture, could trace back to... a bunch of randos in the early printing era, who figured out they can get rich quick by flooding the world with slop.
- PrismCrystal 2y agoI wouldn’t expect any mythos to be perfect, because they have often been constructed quickly and hastily due to external pressures for national unity. Various countries that saw a surge for independence during the 19th century age of nationalism, often based their mythos on Romantic-era poetry that sometimes has aged well (e.g. the Kalevala), and sometimes has aged quite badly (a few Eastern European countries).
- globalnode 2y agochange "printing era" to "ai era" and you might be onto something!
- TeMPOraL 2y agoNot really. "AI era" is adding a flood of new crap to the world already drowned in slop. The last couple decades marked the time where everyone could publish books, videos and music, and a lot of people did, creating more content every day than any human could consume in a lifetime. And that's discounting the orders of magnitude more useless garbage that advertising industry has been mass-producing for like a century now. Adding AI to the mix makes zero actual difference at this point.