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The simple answers to the questions that get asked about every new technology:

Will [blank] make us all geniuses? No
Will [blank] make us all morons? No
Will [blank] destroy whole industries? Yes
Will [blank] make us more empathetic? No
Will [blank] make us less caring? No
Will teens use [blank] for sex? Yes
Were they going to have sex anyway? Yes
Will [blank] destroy music? No
Will [blank] destroy art? No
But can’t we go back to a time when- No
Will [blank] bring about world peace? No
Will [blank] cause widespread alienation by creating a world of empty experiences? We were already alienated

  • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    “All” is obviously a step too far. I can give you that. I think it’s an overly literal way to interpret the spirit of the statement, as essentially nothing afflicts “All”, making the statement pretty much universally worthless. But it’s still a good faith argument on your end I think, so ok.

    I think it will make most people more moronic. How many people it pushes over the line? Couldn’t say… but anecdotally a lot of people I interact with before have been pushed over the line already.

    In my experience, there seems to be a correlation to how close to that line people are and how excited they are about LLMs. A few major exceptions. Possibly bimodal distribution? I dunno.

    If it were refrained as “will x make a terrifyingly shit ton of people morons? So much so that societal organization will be measurably harmed?” Maybe it’d be easier.