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Nexus X HumectressHow GPT AI impoverishes discourse and culture
I’m going to go out on a limb here and for the sake of argument assume that it’s possible to speak of “progress” (in everything from science, philsophy, the arts and politics) in a meaningful sense.
We can use a quantitative notion (the dominant modern perspective) where knowledge accumulates and sometimes gets refined by new theories or observations that build upon said accumulated base.
We could also assume a qualitative notion of progress, sometimes expressed in relation to the arts, maybe more often in politics, where positive developments involve the change of not only the theoretical apparatus – but even of the very preconditions for interpretation and of the values that guide our judgments.
Progress here means transcending previous theoretical bases to discover entirely new forms of knowledge.
A third perspective which isn’t so much a position on progress per se, but which I find much less authoritarian than either of the above, is to jettison the entire concept of preferable, universally prescribed goals for society and just let people decide for themselves.
Let the Spirit blow wherever it will.
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Anyway, the point is that progress in either of the first two senses (and definitely the anti-progress alternative) will be effectively undermined by the ascendancy of GPT AI technology and similar tools.
Why?
Attack the System
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