/lit/ - Literature

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consider a library containing all possible books, arranged at random, might as well be a library containing zero books, as any true information would be buried in, and rendered indistinguishable from, all possible forms of false information. That's what the internet has been becoming and we will need tools like AI to counter it.

look at something like this for instance. rather than pay for liberal arts degree, spend years winching yourself up book by book lecture by lecture in which your greatest limitations are time and access I can now train an AI on every philosopher I like and engage in Socratic diaologue to educate myself. If I do not understand something I can ask for explanations at various levels of complexity, I can ask what Plato would think about Heidegger, I can ask for examples, debunks, steelmen, context, influence. So much unnecessary time, browsing, googling, skimming, wikiing, video essaying (if you even know where/how to look) is eliminated and that surplus time + knowledge has radical implications on societal scales much like the invention of the leisure class during the industrial resolution and then the fine arts to mollify them

https://chat.openai.com/share/48686389-6a4b-4904-bb8e-8e89f883ce12

the last decade has been a slow march of collective enlightenment as a critical mass of people are going into the online spiral of mirrors and slowly winching ourselves out of ignorance through exposure and reflexivity. Somewhere along the way that dream of the new internet got snuffed out and financialized but AI can break that stranglehold, one of many reasons opensource models and access will be crucial