| I consider myself a lifelong student... I'm finding it's accelerating the disconnect between those who actually study things until they understand and those who learn how to please metrics and have total disregard for an objective reality. Obviously, there's a bell curve of these hypothetical type of people. But I find that AI amplifies bullshit and makes it harder for me to find out how to do things on my own. I graduated with a 3.1, and I remember remarking to a group of very smart people that it felt like it's impossible to say anything of substance without inevitably doxing yourself, since at our core our experiences define us. Could the current generation of AI obsessed PhD students write the above? Maybe, the path for them was laid by the metrics obsessed tenure track that came before. One of the things college did for me was make me respect those who can write well... but we're creating a generation that cannot be creative and cannot compute and then the lash out in the voting booth, in the streets, and the hackers have more mess to clean up. And please, consider this creative nonfiction? I get they it's HN, but sometimes ppl get so pendantic and part of what drew me into these spaces as a kid was whimsical shit like Douglas Adams, and I think we can all agree that there's a distinct lack of happiness in in both the hacker world and the normie world. There's a lot of positive uses for "AI". I read a lot more foriegn news. I sometimes speak to or reply to more foreign people. But I also see more bullshit amplified in with those enriching interactions, and the bullshit pile grows and grows and thus, the world we see today. (IMHO) Edit: Somewhere in the USA |