This is definitely the future, I'm worried about the electric slip and slide world we're heading into though, where everything is completely spoonfed and consumptive. I can't help but think we're heading back into animalism.
Technology is pretty quickly and apparently not only coming for our critical thinking, but our agency
With llms, "knowing things" is already starting to feel like a thing of a past, not to me, but to a lot of others, there's no longer an incentive to "switch on".
Why should a kid learn anything if a robot is instantly better at everything? Maths got replaced by calculators, deep critical thinking will get replaced by llms a lot of the time, which are word calculators, which is the closest thing we have to a logic calculator.
This is more passive autopilot software, which further promotes learning as something you 'consume' rather than something you seek.
The public consciousness has absolutely taken a semptember 11 tier nosedive since social media, we're approaching what I term cultual schizophrenia, which I posted about on my blog which I deleted, but I've readded it if you're interested [https://substack.com/home/post/p-156983317]. There's no contextualisers in the media to give the right emphasis to the right things.
This is just my perspective, from what I've seen from other younger people of my age. We are heading into extremely interesting times, everything profoundly destabalising thing we've speculated about is happening at the exact same time. We desperately need visionaries in politics.
I’m sorry you’re stressed, but please at least consider that you may be falling into the generational “kids these days” trap. I’m old, so I have lived through the world being on the brink of disasters caused by AI, social media, gay marriage, violent video games, the internet in general, cell phones, pagers, nuclear weapons, television. Probably a bunch more world-ending crises I forgot.
The world is changing, but then again it always has been. IMO some things will get better, some will get worse, but ghe overall arc of human health and prosperity will continue upwards. There is less poverty, less starvation, more opportunity today than ever… even though some aspects of the world are bad and getting worse. That’s the way it’s always been.
Some good observations there, but I'm still unclear on why you used the term "animalism" - none of that seems to me at all similar to how other species engage with the world.
