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Brook Hines's avatar

AI won’t become conscious, but it will take entry-level positions in the workforce which will further burden young ppl who are already locked out of home ownership and i’d argue…having a family, building any sort of security like insurance, or retirement. which low-income GenXers like me and my crew will tell you was BS from the start.

AI is a fancy search engine and illustration machine—but that’s enough to disrupt a LOT careers.

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Mark Oglesby's avatar

Thomas, a most excellent book to READ: Sherry Turkle's 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other' Basically, Turkle states the obvious, AI or whatever you wish to call it, cannot cognate, cannot think and/or advance itself. Its purpose, to end social intercourse between people, which we are losing quickly. The main thesis of my work 'Zen & The Art of Masturbation' is the story of going online and continually 'Clicking-the-Mouse' instead of going out and interacting with other people, something which is destroying us, which is to say, those people out there are the "others" put on the mask and social-distance for your health & safety.

One last thing (for now), reading books is vitally important as you are required to think about the various problems throughout your read which can hardly be done with only reading, watching or listening to even the best of independent news. In doing a Graduate program (Master of Arts in Religion) I had to read a stack of books, some 5 or 6 thousand pages, analyze everything under-the-sun in those pages and write a 5 PAGE paper concerning the various subjects in the program (Theology and Ethics). And most certainly, I didn't spend all that time and money for a career and/or job, hell no, I'm human and as such, for me, being PERFECT is not doing everything CORRECT, it being my authentic self, a person!

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