I can't be the only one. I know I'm a miserable misanthropic motherfucker at times, but surely—on this thing at least—I'm not hanging out here on my own, swinging in the wind like a hanging dick?
From the media hacks selling their souls for clicks, to the `Tech Bro's` ushering in of a new era of utopian technocratic bliss, I really am sick to death of this AI bubble. Just pop already!
And don't get me started on Microsoft Windows. Man, they're just throwing copilot-slop into absolutely everything they can. I wouldn't mind so much if it had any actual utility, y'know. Did something useful, for example. But from what I've experienced thus far, it's absolutely fucking useless.
I'm not against the technology, in principle. I'm sure there are going to be loads of useful things it can do. I'm no Luddite. I just think we're walking a dangerous path. As a species we're definitely getting smarter; the very smartest humans on the planet today are infinitely more clever than those of a century ago, and I'm sure in another hundred years the most clever of our species will be smarter still.
The probem is the rest of us. The world is just so full of fucking idiots.
As bad as that phenomenon is today, can you imagine a future society weened on the teet of AI, unable to excercise any critical thought of their own because they have, from birth, offloaded their mental capacity to it. On evolutionary timescales, this is bound to lead to a shrinking of the human brain. The modern-day allergen crisis was caused by humans living in ultra-clean sterile environments, completely closeted from everyday micro-critters. Our immune systems have compensated by overreacting to minor intrusions, such as pollen, or lactose, or gluten, and we now have an ever-increasing intolerance to these benign organic compounds.
AI is going to have a similar impact on our neurological capabilities. We're heading for a world where people's brain's have atrophied, where people have forgotten how to think. Years ago, people could do arithmetic in their heads. Kids of my generation have grown up with digital calculators, and I can't do maths for shit without resorting to a calculator.
But maybe this is the Great Filter; the reason we don't see advanced civillisations in the Universe. Intelligent species eventually get too intelligent, to the point where they lack the wisdom to moderate. We get ever-smarter, hit a peak, and then decline into stupidity and die out.
Human stupidity. It started with consumerism, was accelerated by reality TV, became impossible not to notice through Social Media, and it will end with AI.
That's our future.
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