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by overvale 340 days ago
Ok, sorry I mentioned wrong AI, replace it with whatever your choice of AI is that has web access and is good at summarizing current events and answering questions about them.

I come up against this argument a lot, that by stopping reading the news I've somehow "cut myself off from the outside world". I still read books, study history, do research on topics that interest me, talk to my friends and family about what's happening in the world. I'm not cutting myself off from the outside world, I'm cutting myself off from simulacrum of the world created by news media and social networks.

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Just be careful you're not moving from the news-media created simulacrum to an equally bad AI created simulacrum.
Fair! Is it too much to hope that I can escape all simulacrums?