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Kollibri terre Sonnenblume's avatar

All good points.

As a writer, I too value the practice for how it helps me think and figure things out. Outsourcing to AI totally misses the point.

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Kimberley Homer's avatar

Thank you for writing and for giving readers something to think about. VR (Virtual Reality) was supposed to replace actual reality until it didn’t. Who needs a decent place to live when you can pretend to live somewhere fantastic? But, oops, a person does actually need to keep her body from freezing, roasting, or starving, and no amount of VR helps with that, and AI actually needs to keep its bodies from freezing, roasting, or starving, too, and no amount of hype makes that happen without material and humans to put it in place and continue feeding it with more material—not to say there isn’t danger in the disappearing of institutions that support critical thinking, but we should not concede defeat just yet.

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