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aduty
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The threat is comfortable drift toward not underst...
> Then the social paradigm needs to change. Is everyone just going to roll over and die while AI destroys academia (and possibly a lot more)?
My 40-some-odd years on this planet tells me the answer is yes.
pasquinelli
4 months ago
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you might be right but 40-some-odd years is a tiny amount of time.
aduty
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Sure, relative to the universe, but it's more than those who haven't had idealism beaten out of them by the world.
pasquinelli
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no, not relative to the universe, relative to recent history. 40 years is not much in the context of history, which is the topic. your life experience is small and unimportant at the world-historical scale.
aduty
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So what are you, 200?
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My 40-some-odd years on this planet tells me the answer is yes.