Offloading cognition to a machine is a problem that goes far beyond the capitalist system. A fact evidenced by dozens of studies from across the globe all showing a terrifying decrease in linguistic skill, communication skills, memory, problem solving abilities, and general cognitive atrophy.
Using AI to optimize a spreadsheet? Good use of optimization.
Using AI for research, “summarizing” texts, or as a google search? Uh oh.
But then who will do my thinking for me 🥺
I struggle to use google or reason through basic thoughts. I’d rather the corpobot do those for me.
Please refer back to the first sentence in my previous comment.
Please refer back to the first sentence in my previous comment.
Em-Dashes were mainly a GPT issue, and most models have moved to using parentheses, which are heavy in this text. The “not x but y” was explicitly coded out with GPT4 too.
Does having “summary” and “conclusion” sections in the text not seem at all interesting? The sections aren’t even coherent, they’re just random AI blurbs, that then jump to a completely unrelated topic.
Sources for many of the quotes aren’t cited at all either.
Why should I bother to read or argue against a text that a writer couldn’t be bothered to write themselves?
The rapid abandonment of reasoning and even basic critical thinking in favour of letting a corporate machine do those for you is both horrifying and depressing.
A pro-AI person that can’t even bother to write their own pro-AI defense is a little funny.
But, genuinely asking, why do you think it would matter?
Also OP is here, in the comments, interacting with people. So I guess it’s achieved sentience.
Ok? And? Did I say that OP was a machine, or that OP most likely used AI to generate the text? OP can use AI for the main body of the post and then write a few sentences on their own in the comments. I’m confused as to what your argument is.
What answer do you think is more likely?
It’s not bad faith skepticism if that is quite literally how AI typically formats it’s long form answers.
You know what, now that I notice it, who puts a “Summary” section in the middle of a post before continuing on as if nothing happened?
Just noticed another “conclusion”, section. OP couldn’t even be bothered to hide where the tokens stopped generating.
Honestly, going off of the sheer size, the very neatly ordered sections with bold headers, various hyperlinks, and random lists… I think you know the answer to that question.
Edit: AI bros losing their minds whenever someone says anything about AI that isn’t worshiping the corporate machine will never not be funny. Actual five year old levels of cognition.
Unit cost:
MH-60R Seahawk - $40,000,000
F/A-18F Super Hornet - $67,400,000 million
Subtotal - $107,400,000
Result: Tactical Chinese victory
It’s Plato but it also isn’t a critique.
Plato believed the general idea stated in the post, but he genuinely believed that that was a good thing because that meant he got to be powerful and maintain his influence.
Reliable evidence isn’t a blog and a piece from a neo-conservative think tank that you didn’t even bother reading.
Grow up
Your sources are a blog from a Australian Colonel, and a report from the brookings institute that quite literally supports my position and is the first thing that comes up when you look up “US counterinsurgency”
That’s some revolutionary research. Horrifically smarmy and disingenuous. Did you even read the Brookings piece?
“I love being right” what are you? 12?
I promise you that conscripted privates were not benefiting materially in any way except through the indirect profiteering of the US by means of imperial acquisition.
The federal poverty line for an individual in 1976 was 1,375 dollars a year.
A private with less then 2 years active duty, or the standard conscription length, made 83.20 a month, or 998.40 dollars a year. Pre-tax.
That’s not exactly swimming in cash, which contributed immensely to the plummeting of conscript moral by the 70s.
Poor proletarian workers, especially minorities, did not have the resources to either run away to Canada, or the ability to subject their families to financial ruin by serving time in prison or leaving them behind.
The people who were dodging the draft were college educated labour aristocrats who had enough money themselves or from their families to keep their heads down in Canada until the draft blew over.
Should they have served time in prison or dodged the draft? Morally, absolutely. Materially? That’s where the idealism falls apart.
What in the world are you talking about? You can’t just make up claims because they sound right and affirm your stance.
The switch to counter insurgency oriented training began with the Vietnam war… which took place over 60-50 years ago. The disastrous counter insurgent performance of a military trained to fight the Soviets prompted a massive overhaul of US doctrine; especially as the prospect of war with the USSR became increasingly unlikely as the Union headed toward collapse. Actually, the effectiveness of the Afghans against the Soviets only intensified US military counter insurgency training and preparation.
Further, the vast majority of Usian veterans are overwhelmingly post-9/11 troops trained in counter insurgency operations before deployment to Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghan, Libya, and other nations where insurgency is the primary mode of combat.
I don’t know in what world you think the US abandoned Iraq, Syria, and Afghan in 2010. The army and national guard were rotating tens of thousands of troops into those nations continuously.
I honestly doubt it. Something in my heart tells me that those ‘Israeli citizens’ are most likely from minority communities and therefore relegated to the dregs of Israeli society. They’re the Palestinian and arab individuals graciously granted citizenship in the larger Israeli state, and their suffering doesn’t concern the upper echelons at all.
A fate worse then death.
Sorry, I should have specified that the studies were also directly pertaining to AI usage.