@Npars01 Yeah I agree, what do you think is the solution forward if AI is here to stay and it becomes ubiquitous
What do you think should be that small unit of practice one can repeat daily to get better at even with AI use, that will always hold value and amplify our expertise rather than decrease it
@impactology @Npars01 Kindness to other people. Everybody needs to practice this and it is something AI will never understand.
Agreed! GenZ especially needs to learn this, very foul mouthed they are becoming
AI has found a few niches.
1. Stock market manipulation
"Markets are full of predatory trading algorithms. They’ve evolved to hunt in packs." William Gibson
2. Election meddling
3. Automated disinformation
4. Union busting
5. Malign influence campaigns
6. Jailbreaking IP
7. Surveillance capitalism
8. Price fixing & rent fixing
9. Monopolization
AI is like a crutch you get addicted to using, long after the broken leg is healed
Something that weakens, never strengthens
AI is built on stolen intellectual property, it can never be better than its origins. It can't create original work, only copy other's work
As #pluralistic describes it, it's spicy autocomplete
Overreliance on such tools means people forget how to spell on their own. They make obvious grammatical errors because they're not really doing the writing
@Npars01 Sure, so what can be done about it? Assume the technology is here to stay, and its use becomes ubiquitous even in job tasks, workflows and duties to get paid how should one adapt to its use?
Its a crutch, spicy autocomplete, its bad yes, it weakens us, atrophies our cognitive abilities okay and yet its forced upon us so we have to figure out a way to use it that doesn't weaken but strengthen us.
@Npars01 basically no point in crying over spilled milk
My prediction?
The fossil fuel cash funding AI will dry up.
OPEC & Russia will have laundered sufficient money through Silicon Valley.
The flight of capital will move on to something real like automated warfare or state surveillance platforms with guaranteed government contracts & a constant cash flow. It'll make AI too expensive.
The data centers won't get built because the speculators will move elsewhere.
Bosses will abandon AI implementation because the ROI is too poor.
@Npars01 agree with this. Its primary use will be the imposition of surveillance and oppression, which will be much in demand as the reality of a future with less affordable energy and resources bites down on distracted polities. At some point though that falls over too as the supply chains for it become impossible to sustain.
So it is most definitely not “here to stay”, along with much of modernity
Its here to stay as long as VCs are okay with burning their cash on it, seems like they have a lot to be okay with running on loss making AI products
https://www.a16z.news/p/we-raised-15b-why
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/anthropic-funding-term-sheet-valuation.html
They have a comfortable runway to change workplace habits, practices and hiring for the next five years.
