Tracking the Rise of the neo-Luddites

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@bombcar

nobody tell him that he’s the only human here, and the rest are chatbots setup by Syonyk before he returned to his home planet

I mean, if you are all chatbots advanced enough to offer truly sound technical advice on 3D printing, lithium battery bank design, PV inverter selection, and amusing stories from Kerbal Space Program… should I really mind all that much?

@bombcar

And this is the scary part about the AI; not that the AI will get smart enough to replace us, but that we will become dumb enough that nobody can tell the difference, because everyone is just tweeting into the void.

Scary, yes, but what does that have to do with AI? ‘rise of AI’ isn’t the problem then, decline of human competence is. Like discussed in the Literacy in Modern Culture thread.