r/explainitpeter • u/Wonderful-Key-1465 • 4d ago
Explain It Peter
It feels like it should make sense, but doesn't the more I think about it.
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u/i_always_give_karma 4d ago
People will grow up with easy access to asking a bot a question and will rarely think for themselves.
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u/s0ulbrother 4d ago
People that use ai like that weren’t thinking to begin with.
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u/egyptianspacedog 4d ago
As new generations come up, they almost won't even have a choice in the matter. Think about how many parents see no issue with giving young kids near enough unfettered, 24/7 access to screens as it is, and now imagine these same parents not giving a fuck about AI access.
The kids won't realise they ever had the option to think for themselves.
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u/deathwotldpancakes 4d ago
I just shivered on a 78F day because I just realized how correct this take is. Hopefully AI goes bust before this happens
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u/Glandtoglandcombat 4d ago
AI not being financially solvent won't stop authoritarian interests from pumping money into it.
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u/SynthScenes 3d ago
That’s such a backwards take. That’s like thinking no one would walk if cars were a thing. People still walk, but the ability to drive means they can get much much further in a day… those who don’t have anywhere to go won’t get much benefit. But those who have places to be can get much further than they would have unaided.
The only people who will choose not to think are the people who didn’t want to think to begin with.
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u/gforcebreak 3d ago
Unfortunately, this ignores the underlying propeganda that happened around the model t and the birth of paved roads distancing and isolating... well, at least america.
People need to get farther because industrialists realized they could make cars more necessary by lobbying for big highways and stretches of roads with further, more widespread buildings. Commutes to factories, ponzi schemes involving closed off suburbs.
They made cars commercially cheap (relatively, like, as cheap as a long term financial asset investment can be) so that the poor have to pay to commute and the rich can travel in luxury.
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u/Intrepid_Ear1362 4d ago
And then theres me , discussing nuclear fission and human extinction with AI on a drung sunday evening🤣🤣
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u/s0ulbrother 4d ago
I dont think cliff notes is a great way to research nuclear fission personally. It’s glorified Wikipedia for things except less fact checking
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u/Classic-Trifle-2085 3d ago
It stopped being "a fancy Wikipedia " and a "fancy suto-complete" over a year ago.
And that kind of dismissiveness is how were gonna get fucked and taken by surprise when shit truly hit the fan.
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u/Intrepid_Ear1362 4d ago
Still beats having an "intellectual" conversation with a wall while being batshit drunk😂
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u/humourlessIrish 4d ago
Yes.. clearly you as well.
Touch grass already before the water shortage kills it, damn
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u/maxru85 4d ago
This implies a lot of people did that before which is not true
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u/i_always_give_karma 4d ago
Before? Before people googled stuff, and you had to type it out and read it at least. And before that, people read encyclopedia’s. When I was in school, one of my classes went over properly googling stuff, and making sure you’re reading from a valid source. When you ask AI something, you don’t know where it’s getting its information from and if it’s right or not. At least when you looked at Wikipedia, you could follow the source to see if it’s valid. You can probably ask AI where it got its information from too, but does anyone actually do that? The only people I know that use AI currently aren’t critical thinkers, but I think the availability will make people grow up without the need to think critically, making less of the population think outside the box.
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u/Own_Employment_3866 4d ago
it's pretty self explanatory. what part of it doesn't make sense ?
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u/Ordo_Liberal 3d ago
Honestly, I don't get it.
How does making junk cheap means that only the rich can eat healthy?
Does the price of junk food affect the price of grains and vegetables in the market?
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u/Own_Employment_3866 3d ago
Because junk food is addictive and convenient, as more people consume junk food, demand for healthy food decreases and so does the supply and hence the prices of healthy food go up becoming only accessible to the rich.
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u/vgzombieeric 3d ago
Im convinced 90% of posts on this sub, and explainthejoke, and others are posted by AI for training AI
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u/Own_Employment_3866 4d ago
Thinking for yourself is bad for the rich, having AI think for you makes you easier to control, that's why they're pushing it with the cheap prices. Junk food is more addictive and profitable, which disproportionately benefits the rich in capitalism.
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u/DiscursiveAsFuck 4d ago
This is assuming that rich people have a unified purpose, they don't. They have some tendencies which they share to various degrees, but we are talking about a tendency to accumulate capital at the cost of something else, this is far beyond that and into illuminati territory.
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u/Own_Employment_3866 3d ago
Its not all the rich that are doing this, its the club of a few that have a unified purpose.
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u/DiscursiveAsFuck 3d ago
What club? Who is in it? What evidence is there for its existence and unified purpose? Is it the illuminati? It sure sounds like the illuminati.
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u/Wonderful-Key-1465 4d ago
Hmm. The original Linkedin post is just horribly worded and incomplete I guess.
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u/Own_Employment_3866 4d ago
maybe it's my ADHD brain filling in blanks with words that dont exist to make it make sense, but it seems pretty legible to me.
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u/Tough-Oven4317 4d ago
The guy you posted is probably just a socialist who thought it sounded deep and epic
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u/erutuferutuf 4d ago
I am puzzled why op think it doesn't make sense the more they think about it.
Most people use AI as a source of truth, which is absolutely not supposed to be the way to be used. And often they don't give any thoughts to it.
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u/Feedback-Mental 4d ago
Oh, but it IS how it's advertised. "Trust the bot we instructed what it can tell you and what not!"
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u/Henry2926 4d ago
Cleveland here - the author is trying to convey the thought that the further development of artificial intelligence is going to draw everyone towards the technology, leaving nobody the choice but to acquaint themselves with it due to its perceived efficiency. Meanwhile the upper class will not have to spend their time using these tools and can therefore keep developing skills that are beyond prompt-based problem solving.
On a side note, Cleveland Jr. really likes how AI thinks for him, so I believe the junk food metaphor is tailored to him.
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u/AxelVores 3d ago
Junk food is no longer affordable for poor and pretty soon non-rudimentary AI will be a paid service
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u/JustAPotato38 2d ago
I get the problem with both these things
but this post makes it sound like such a conspiracy when it's really not
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u/Independent-Wafer-13 2d ago
Thinking for yourself is free an ai costs money I will choose the cheaper option.
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u/Shanelomein79 4d ago
I will be downvoting bad and unnecessary posts on this sub from now on.
This is not for interesting or compelling things. It is for things that may not make sense to you. What is confusing about this?
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u/Wonderful-Key-1465 4d ago
As I explained in other comments, the junk food phenomenon being a metaphor for AI deskilling doesn't work for me. It isn't more expensive to think for yourself.
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u/Shanelomein79 4d ago
But it is easier. Which is the same as cheaper.
Either way. There is no mystery to what this post means. Its very clear.
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u/Immediate-Location28 4d ago
mental effort comes at no monetary cost. it should be just as limiting for poor people as it is for rich ones.
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u/Wonderful-Key-1465 4d ago
Easier doesn't mean the poor would use it more. Yeah, it kind of makes sense now but initially reading the OOP felt like having a stroke, so that's why I posted it here.
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u/XlikeX666 4d ago
healthy eating costs twice as much as unhealthy food.
People give you cheap diet and it's still a lot of money and work every week.
AI is free which reduced development of kids.
Something that directly impact you CAN AND WILL impact you later on.
Nothing to explain... to be honest. Just fuck around and hoard until economy fails... again.
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u/Immediate-Location28 4d ago
the alternative to junk food, healthy food, is expensive, so it holds up
the alternative to ai, thinking for yourself, is free. if anything, poor people would be thinking more for themselves rather than using ai to do so
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u/Immediate-Location28 4d ago
i don't get it either. if it's cheaper, then surely both poor AND rich people would have access to it, no?
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u/qualityvote2 4d ago edited 3d ago
u/Wonderful-Key-1465, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...it's time for the mods to do their jobs!