| Plus, the food quality framing: If food preparation is a trade secret, and you go eat, how could you be sure that what you've been sold is food and not just particularly well-processed... wood shavings? (you let them expect you to say "faeces" here, and/or reference Soylent Green if they are of its demographic) Similarly, if knowledge preparation is a trade secret: - how do you know that the skill you're studying is a real discipline, and is not just the setup to an elaborate rug-pull?
- how do you know the work you're doing has an impact other than training your AI replacement?
- how do you know the relatable human interactions shown on the telly are as non-toxic as they're framed, and are not simply the producers' way of normalizing fraudulence? Obviously does not work on people who have not professed to acknowledge one of the above values, such as believers, nihilists... As always, adapt to listener (and if the listener prevents you from doing that - that's very much the same principle of disempowerment as drives the intellectual property regime, only inverted). Both sorts of question then can be answered "by trusting the evaluation of a third party", which is what epistemically illiterate people will default to, and boils down to a more general argument which must be conducted even more personally. E.g. you take all instances in which the norms of society have failed the person, and extrapolate how the intellectual property regime's influence is equivalent. |