Post AyVFrVHbsRXJaSFnTk by Orb2069@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AyV4qLfX2PTfz3gpHM by szbalint@x0r.be
       2025-07-28T17:58:10Z
       
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       I’ve been analyzing this AI phenomenon over the last years, the environmental aspects, the economics of it, the psychology and philosophy of science aspects, the information warfare and abuse.And i think after peeling back five layers from like a particularly gnarly onion, I’ve arrived at the core of it:AI stands for anti-intellectualism.The LLM stuff is the crest of this anti-intellectual wave that’s been gathering force for the past decade or two.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyV4qMlEyfddN3Mtoe by abucci@buc.ci
       2025-09-23T14:18:18Z
       
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       @szbalint@x0r.be Doing my own exercise in onion peelnig I landed at "AI = Anti-Imagination": https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1746289509.659423The important difference being that while intellectualism might overlap with what I'm calling imagination up there, the Venn diagram is definitely not a circle. There are lots of "intellectuals" who embrace AI as a technology in one way or another, even intellectually acknowledging all the negative aspects of it while also continuing to research it and therefore enable it. I personally feel such people lack imagination, though, and that there's been a general trend, hand-in-hand with anti-intellectualism, that's been convincing lots of people that their imaginations don't matter. Generative AI pushes this trend forward.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyVFrVHbsRXJaSFnTk by Orb2069@mastodon.online
       2025-09-23T15:57:02Z
       
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       @abucci @szbalint I've kind of wound up on the less catchy "prosthetic curiosity" - most of the users I've seen in action come to it because they have no curiosity at all about the subject in question, they just want an answer, and the bot gives it to them.  They don't even care if the answer is right, as long as it's plausible enough to not look idiotic and solves their immediate problem.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyVFrX6h5zzdFBA6k4 by abucci@buc.ci
       2025-09-23T16:22:00Z
       
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       @Orb2069@mastodon.online I think I understand what you're saying, but it makes me uneasy. It centers blame on the user instead of the technology, and in doing so has vaguely able-ist vibes, as if there's something wrong with using a prosthetic device. I recognize there are people willingly embracing this technology to their own detriment, but personally I'd rather lay the responsibility at the feet of the governments, multi-trillion-dollar corporations, and the wealthy class who are collectively forcing this technology into everyone's lives.@szbalint@x0r.be