Cars turned us—one of the best species in long distance running into couch potatoes.
Now llms are attacking our brains and making us stupid and insane. A species of slopheads if you will.
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steve jobs famously called the personal computer “a bicycle for the mind”, in that it’s a tool that makes you more efficient. calling language models “an automobile for the mind” in that it gets you there very quickly, without any expended effort, locks you into specific intrastructure, and is bad for the environment, seems pretty apt.
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The analogy is flawed:
The car gave mere humans superhuman traveling abilities.
AI gives Big Tech unprecedented surveillance power and control over the entire society, but puts people out of work and debases everything it touches.
Cars empowered people. AI empowers corporate fascists.
Cars empowered people at first.
But look at every single american town or city and you will see that it crippled them, made them dependent and robbed them of their freedom.
Not everyone is a fat overweight non athletic person. And the computer/rise of tech and luxury did more than cars or LLMs.
