Even as things are getting worse for NPC, more chances open up for real humams. Reading, working out, loving your family, and praying, will build the needed skills and muscle when the chance comes.
This. My take is the choice, as always, boils down to personal responsibility. If you don’t want the paste, you’re on your own. Which is what we want. It’s going to be grim, but there are plenty of reasons for positivity.
"Once it became obvious that maintaining mental fitness would take conscious effort like physical fitness, the NPCs were doomed."
John Carter had an interesting essay recently arguing that AI does to universities what Gutenberg did to monasteries. In the future our "colleges" may be like fitness centers. Self-motivated people will attend to "work out" their minds.
It will all be opt in.
That is true on all levels of reality.
Even as things are getting worse for NPC, more chances open up for real humams. Reading, working out, loving your family, and praying, will build the needed skills and muscle when the chance comes.
Seize it.
This. My take is the choice, as always, boils down to personal responsibility. If you don’t want the paste, you’re on your own. Which is what we want. It’s going to be grim, but there are plenty of reasons for positivity.
"Once it became obvious that maintaining mental fitness would take conscious effort like physical fitness, the NPCs were doomed."
John Carter had an interesting essay recently arguing that AI does to universities what Gutenberg did to monasteries. In the future our "colleges" may be like fitness centers. Self-motivated people will attend to "work out" their minds.
I could see that outcome. AI looks to exacerbate the FTS split more than “take over”. Mastering it is how we stay ahead of system dependence.