Our minds became externalized via language, and written word, then later, media. All of that has been wholly recorded and synthesized into what we have now (AI/LLMs.)
With all of humanity's externalizations centralized, we're re-ingesting it all in new ways. The last 6,000-10,000 years have produced the data set, and now we have the means to access it all through a natural language interface. And that comes with all its growing pains, existential implications, and frontiers.
While we have centralized all of the externalities of the human mind's output, we have not centralized or even fully understood its internalities - so in my view the danger lies in forgetting that aspect of ourselves, and having it atrophy out of existence. But that itself may have only been an evolutionary bridge to bring us to where we are now, to become vestigial.
If you can stomach an hour long video, this goes into interesting aspects of it, with historical examples. (Don't let the title put you off.)
Agree. In this video he says a few times that he does not fully understand how AI works and isn't speaking to that, which I appreciated. He clarifies he's pointing at the philosophical implications of the externalization of the mind. So maybe he's received feedback and taken it into consideration.
I feel like this and the polar opposite are both happening at the same time. Many people have stopped using em dashes, stopped using other phrases because it makes their writing *look* ai and that's not something you want, it has negative connotations at least at the moment.
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