Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them.
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They're already scared to come to school. Republicans want to kick them out for good.
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It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to destroy basic features of the American political and economic systems. From DOGE’s Artificial Intelligence-rampage through federal bureaus, the destruction of agencies like the Department of Education, or Trump’s expanding ICE as his well-funded private domestic army and occupying Democrat-governed cities; the destruction of old standards of normalcy are clear. While documents like Project 2025 reveal elements of Trump’s game plan, there are serious open questions concerning the administration’s long game and exactly how far the oligarchs influencing Trump want to take this antidemocratic movement.
CounterPunch.org (www.counterpunch.org)
"Billionaires seek to recreate illiterate peasantry"
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It was a shock when the Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 for student loan borrowers. Biden responded with an alternate route to debt cancellation using the Higher Education Act, including a negotiated rulemaking and notice-and-comment period that will likely take many months. Unsatisfied with this plan B, a coalition […]
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https://jacobin.com/2018/06/public-education-privatization-koch-brothers-teachers
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AI is in service of a neofeudalist world order.
They are the lords. We are the serfs.
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Actually, Tucker Carlson is wrong. - Marian L. Tupy - Start a free trial today for full access.
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See if this sounds familiar to you: …governments and global elites pursue short-term economic gain above all else. Their aggressive focus on growth, efficient markets, and robust trade eventually causes financial volatility as a result of poorly organized uncoordinated responses to crises in global health, environmental change, and other international issues. The global economic system […]
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(hegemon.substack.com)
A corrupt religion to read our bibles for us.
A corrupt overlord to extract taxes & labor.
Bound to the land, trapped, with no chance of changing. -
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AI is in service of a neofeudalist world order.
They are the lords. We are the serfs.
Republican politicians are creating a feudal economy. Republican politicians are pushing division, inequality, and hopelessness—just like lords on a feudal estate. They are trying to make their lordship permanent and our serfdom permanent. And they are...
Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)
Against The New Feudalism Of Algorithms And Oligarchs
Americans are not peasants. We are citizens of a republic founded on the revolutionary proposition that ordinary people can govern themselves. This isn’t poetry or aspiration—it’s the foundational premise of the American project. And right now, a faction of tech oligarchs is betting everything on proving that premise wrong. They want to replace “We the…
Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
AI Without Work: Elon Musk’s Feudal Future and the Return of the Lords
“The outsourcing of governmental services is the road to tyranny.” Trenz Pruca Every few months, usually after a spaceship launch or a media tantrum, Elon Musk appears on a stage somewhere and predicts that Artificial Intelligence will soon make work...
Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)
Feudalism Was Hell for the Poor
Actually, Tucker Carlson is wrong. - Marian L. Tupy - Start a free trial today for full access.
The Dispatch (thedispatch.com)
In 2029, the Internet Will Make Us Act Like Medieval Peasants
Thanks to ubiquitous smartphones and cellular data, the internet has developed into a kind of supernatural layer set atop everyday life, an easily accessible realm of fearsome power, feverish visions, and apocalyptic spiritual battle.
Intelligencer (nymag.com)
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How the feudal system kept peasants bound to their stations, serving elites through law, economy, and ideology in medieval Europe.
Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas (brewminate.com)
Brainstorming Future American Neo-Feudalism Today - emptywheel
See if this sounds familiar to you: …governments and global elites pursue short-term economic gain above all else. Their aggressive focus on growth, efficient markets, and robust trade eventually causes financial volatility as a result of poorly organized uncoordinated responses to crises in global health, environmental change, and other international issues. The global economic system […]
emptywheel (emptywheel.net)
How to monetize the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain
a short guide for the downwardly mobile elite
(hegemon.substack.com)
A corrupt religion to read our bibles for us.
A corrupt overlord to extract taxes & labor.
Bound to the land, trapped, with no chance of changing.3/
Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism
In Search of New Forms of Life
It's Going Down (itsgoingdown.org)
The thought architects of the current corrupt kleptocracy.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-world-view-sources-00168984
Patrick Deneen
Peter Thiel
Curtis Yarvin
René Girard
Sohrab Ahmari
Claremont Institute
Rod Dreher
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideasThe funders of fascist feudalism: the fossil fuel industry
Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities.
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Meet Tim Dunn: the ultraconservative billionaire pastor spending millions to protect his oil – and elect Trump
The Texas fossil fuel mogul has poured nearly $30m to drive the state legislature to the far-right, and now the evangelical Christian wants to spread his ideology to the federal government
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
developers who delegated coding to AI produced working code but failed conceptual understanding
I wish tech industry would have that sink in
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developers who delegated coding to AI produced working code but failed conceptual understanding
I wish tech industry would have that sink in
@gytisrepecka @cwebber "working"
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
@cwebber I have been developing Adverserial skills....
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@cwebber and there it is: our education system has mostly been designed for compliance. It needs a redesign because humans will follow the incentives. We are not complicated that way.
We need to incentivize critical thinking. Thankfully, compliance was never one of my parenting goals. Nor should it be anyone’s.
Cooperation is a much better goal.
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
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@ClickyMcTicker @lizzard @KatLS @cwebber My AP English teacher had a unit on logical fallacies and how to detect them. The science teachers (especially at AP level) were pretty consistent at teaching how to approach problems critically and not just plug numbers into an equation. All of this in a bland, middle-class public (USA) high school that spent way too much on football and not enough on teachers. Then again, that was also almost 40 years ago.
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@ClickyMcTicker @lizzard @KatLS @cwebber My AP English teacher had a unit on logical fallacies and how to detect them. The science teachers (especially at AP level) were pretty consistent at teaching how to approach problems critically and not just plug numbers into an equation. All of this in a bland, middle-class public (USA) high school that spent way too much on football and not enough on teachers. Then again, that was also almost 40 years ago.
@dpnash @ClickyMcTicker @lizzard @cwebber I was likewise lucky in the 80s to have at least a few teachers that did this work. Mr. Jayne was the best history teacher ever🩷
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
@cwebber It’s compounded by prior generations of decreasing education in arts and humanities, leading to adults (parents) who themselves did not learn creative thinking, ethics, or different cultures. I remember 20 years ago a comp sci professor complaining that his university was churning out tech grads with terrible communication skills. Those are now the “45 year olds” whose abilities atrophy “but could recover”. Their kids didn’t stand a chance against AI.
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
@cwebber I filed this under "Interesting if true". I'd love to believe it.
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
Worrying…
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@PattyHanson that's not really the same thing. Checks have been getting rarer and rarer for decades. I haven't seen a check in almost 20 years. Something that was important for you to understand when you were younger just isn't true for your grandson. Your son probably hasn't needed to use a check for a long time either and therefore teaching his kids about them just never came up. He's not failing because he didn't deliberately sit them down and explain what a check is.
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@ClickyMcTicker @KatLS @cwebber many teachers try. I'm not so sure about the system as a whole. I'm not even thinking about the US here, I'm not from there. Just as a general class education thing.
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
Considering that the humans are doing an absolutely terrible job, I figure the AI systems can at least be measured....
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
@cwebber Algorithmic complacency kills curiosity and eventually free will.
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Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
@cwebber i saw that the other day. I found the author's aside about how they use it to summarize "hundreds" of papers a bit alarming.
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@ai6yr @cwebber When mentoring students I often get the question - how do you figure things out so quickly.
Then I tell them that I've been messing with hardware and software since I was in my early teens - and I made tons of (innocent) mistakes.
When you get to be an adult you then know how to approach complex systems where you might not have this much margin.
Much of it is heuristics. Offloading heuristics (despite biases) is a VERY BAD IDEA.
@koen_hufkens @ai6yr @cwebber Everything I ever did for a job was noticing patterns and applying them in new situations.
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@cwebber i saw that the other day. I found the author's aside about how they use it to summarize "hundreds" of papers a bit alarming.
@aeva @cwebber yes, he seems way too optimistic about the situation of "adults", himself included, using this technology.
Meanwhile, my university is making LLMs available for students on its platforms with the reasoning, quote:
"The available tools are intended to be used responsibly and treated as support in the process of acquiring knowledge and developing one’s own skills."
... and I want to eat my hat. Students supposed to develop their research skill are sąbotaged by the university.
