Great thoughts from my friend's email newsletter:

> The people who think AI is reshaping reality spend way too much time on the internet. “How will we know what’s real?” means “How will we know whether a TikTok video has been human-processed or machine-processed?” “The art of writing will die” means “The art of writing boring blog posts and meaningless corporate emails will die.” It seems appropriate for the vast, illusory engine of unreality (the Internet) to be created, curated, and synthesized by machines.

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This is good. What newsletter is this?

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Love it. I definitely think that the dead internet will force more people back into the real world, which I think is one of the big positives of AI

Hmmm. I suspect that your friend is operating out of a very short time horizon. The difference in the “state of play”between 2032 and 2047 will be significant (understatement intended).

He's operating out of a metaphysic of human exceptionalism and the recognition that automatons can never be more than automatons. I'm on team human too.

idk if people care. I think they just goto the internet to be entertained. AI or not they will be entertained

Will massively accelerate internet/music/art/video enshitification.

It already is, can't get much worse from here.

Very good! If you only consider the things you directly experience as being real, and everything else as theatre, everything becomes much simpler. A lot of worries disappear. This is especially true of people you interact with - you can't really know a person through media and social media. Only the people you interact with in every day life, where you get a high bandwidth experience of their words and actions and can develop a proper human relationship.