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Stefano's avatar

"But if we take a moment to pause, to think, and embrace the truly disruptive capacity of generative technologies, we can quite literally re-program our world toward our highest, most compassionate and inclusive ends, rather than be programmed out of life itself."

Historically, I can't think of a single instance of this happening.

Realistically, crisis might spurn reactionary remedies, but a wholesale abrupt change in ethos and paradigm, unlikely.

Like you wrote, AI exposed the inconsistencies in education. But this implies education was broken and there was no realistic impulse to change it. AI hence could spur reactionary remedies, but the underlying assumptions, for instance: infinite growth, is baked into the cake production process.

Unfortunately it's the same with most sectors. The process is baked into the cake. AI can accelerate the process, revealing ugly truths. But reimagining a process, that's the pipedream of revolutionaries and realistically not happening.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…i was stunned last week by a zillenial shutting down a whole conversation on ai because they wouldn’t allow someone to badmouth the tech…many of the new generation are maximalists in a way that i think ensures the unabundant version of our future (unless you are a tech bro/bra already on the upper eschaloon of the insides)…

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