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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" aye there's the rub.

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Isn't the suggestion that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” a self-fulfilling prophecy (the 'sufficiently' bit) and therefore effectively meaningless?

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A different possibility is that all the AI content will be read by AI bots, who in turn will eventually outnumber the humans, which will turn the content ship towards what the bots want too engage with. A bit like twitter except turbocharged.

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Charles, I referenced you in my latest post in my Networks of Relationships Series.

Why Relationships Matter

https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/why-the-relationships-matter?sd=pf

Thank you.

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Great. So to stop this/ or, in other words, stabilize the race against the AI, the inflation must comes in terms of time spent on the content. The time spent is now valuable, and will proceed to be exponentially more valuable, when the capacity to consume the content remains the same.

The increase in capacity may come in form of linear increase of time to spent on the content, meaning when the amount of time for other activities decreases = hours spent in work, maybe partly compensated by UBI. But to truly inflate the paradigm, the 24 hour cycle needs to be broken to catch up = either by biology or DNA manipulation or psychedelics to increase the capacity to comprehend amount of information in given amount of time. As people and humankind are highly motivated by competition, can this (AI generated content grabbing our attention) be the paradigm that will push us into exponential self-development in terms of genetics/ biotechnology?

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Ironic that this showed up this morning. I saw this phenomenon taking over my social media viewing. In particular, TikTok. Yesterday, I deleted it from my phone.

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