[randysalami]

Work harder, create datapoints, democratize knowledge. Except that knowledge will be confined eventually and doom the futures of many people. Use AI now to get ahead of your peers by feeding it questions and evaluating responses. Then in 10 years, Insert Field Here will be dominated by models trained by yesterday’s experts. New members of the field will not be able to compete with the collective knowledge of 1000s of their predecessors. Selling the futures of our youth for short-term gains. It’s quite sad and it is what’s happening.

It’s a shame too because it really could have been something so much more amazing. I’d imagine higher education would shift to how it used to be: a past-time for bored elites. We would probably see a large reduction in the middle class and its eventual destruction. First they went for manufacturing with its strong unions, now they go for the white-collar worker who has little solidarity for his common man (see lack of unions and ethics in our STEM field; most likely because we thought we could never be made redundant). Field by field the middle class will be destroyed and the lower class in thrall of addictive social media, substances, and the illusion of selection into the influencer petty-elite (which remain compliant because they don’t offer value proportional to the bribes they receive). The elites will have recreated the dynamic that existed for most of human history. Final point, see the obsession of current elites in using artificial insemination to create a reliable and durable contingent of heirs. Something previous rulers could only dream about in history.

It disgusts me and pisses me off so much.