Replying to Avatar Ken Berry, MD

When writing was first introduced, Plato warned it would destroy memory.

When the printing press emerged, scholars feared it would flood the world with unfiltered ideas.

When novels spread, doctors warned young women might lose touch with reality.

When TV came, it would rot your brain.

When the internet rose, it was the death of attention.

And now we have AGI?

Same pattern. Same panic.

But here's my question: Is this time actually different?

Or, are we just afraid, once again, of a tool we haven’t yet learned how to wield?
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Beneath The Ink 5mo ago

Many may argue we are still a very long way from agi even though these llm company ceos might make you believe otherwise. In either case, there will always be a new technology we have to learn to leverage for fear of getting left behind.

The only antidote to that would be to stop seeking "progress" and be content with what we can do now, seeking to make our existence more sustainable.

I mean what's to stop us from just saying hey this is pretty good as it is and everyone seek to have a self-sustainable or community sustained existence.... na that prob won't happen....

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