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> in a world in which machines can outthink us, outperform us and replicate increasingly better versions of themselves...

These machines can only oversell themselves, not outthink humans. A high school dropout pretending to be a PhD grad and scamming people. https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/what-is-the-iq-of-chatgpt https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598430479878856737.html

Since the machine's powers have been overstated, is it merely a symptom of men becoming dumber, and idiocracy is on the horizon (as noted by Edward Dutton)? Even when pessimistic nihilism feels like the easier answer, it is likely that the social environment makes the desire to resist unthinkable (as per Mark Fisher's prediction).

What is to blame would always be present, outside of occasional innovations, and contained within timeless socio-economic systems. Demands for homogeneous craft leads to automation/outsourcing and crushes artistry.

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Cambridge, not Oxford. Thanks for the shoutout Mark!

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Dang it! Sorry. I’ll get it right next time.

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