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Candy's avatar

Being born 1952 I have more experience in the non AI world by percentage so far. Because of that my career working for a publishing company for 35 years changed from phone calls and laying keylines for shooting camera negatives and glass milk bottles to plastic everything and the birth of fax machines in the mid-70’s. Creativity went from photo shoots to online art. Business deals by fax speeded up easily to 75% by a signature.

As I see my 2 adult children using the AI world in business and life, then going to counseling with their mates to learn how to communicate with each other I can only hope that they and their children can stay anchored in the reality of fresh air, bike rides, cooking together.

I may be ignorant of the AI lurking behind many things, but not banking online and having a flip phone plus I pad seems to keep me out of the mess so far. And to date I have found the best way of communicating with someone is to meet them at their model and go from there.

Jeffrey Strahl's avatar

Excellent discussion.

Three things which i found deeply impactful about life under digital (and increasingly AI-managed) conditions.

1. All human relations are reduced to transactions. Perfectly explains Trump, the transactional president.

2. Due to spending so much time in digital, vs direct experience, and also our chemicalized environment, beings are de-sexed. Young men who don't even know how to relate to young women, young women who are angry with all men, a society which has lost the necessary male-female polarity.

3. Externalized agency and responsibility. People being unwilling and unable to think their way out of a paper bag, accepting of absurdities such as the totally AI-created in silico-only "SARS-Cov-2" as a "threat" to public health.

Woe is we.

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