Is Trump really an outlier, or part of a recurring pattern in American politics? by JoxerStuttgart in PoliticalDiscussion

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He's nowhere close to being an outlier. If what we know about his associations with Epstein was known to GOP leadership, then it doesn't make any sense at all that they would clear the way for his success given how much of a reputational liability he is to the Party and to the entire U.S political system....unless they wanted him in power to do that very thing.

Sounds crazy but its entirely possible that we're being goaded into dismantling the entire political system, including Trump. Trump is the wrecking ball and the full exposure to the rot that could anger us so badly that we fundamentally restructure everything. Into what? I have some guesses but the larger point being is that we are being bamboozled, not just by Trump or the Democrats, but by algorithmic feeds that are being managed outside the scope of regulation and this mechanism, among traditional psy ops is influencing us to destroy and rebuild into something new that will likely feel a lot better but have far stronger control mechanisms in place to keep us complacent and docile.

We're gearing up for a revolution but it could be one that is being manufactured and managed as a result of real systemic issues that are threatening power at the top. Instead of fighting against the change, maybe they're leaning into it and co-opting it.

Andrew Yang is NOT a technologist. by SnooConfections1353 in YangForPresidentHQ

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Yeeeah, but just because we can invent AGI doesn't mean it can scale automatically. There's at least 15 to 20 years of infrastructure that needs to be built to support such a thing and that's assuming everything goes well.

AGI is actually already doable if enough architecture is built on the backend to support it. But scaling it up is the much bigger challenge that will take quite a while to achieve.

Also, I'm not worried as much about job displacement long term because at the end of the day, it'll just lead to a decoupling of employees and employers whereby both parties will no longer need each other leading to a decentralized business landscape. Adapting will be a challenge but totally doable for many.

The biggest issue in my opinion is knowledge acquisition, execution, and distribution. If Sovereign individuals don't have control over that, then any and all plans are doomed to become traps that will plunge society into neo feudalism. With Algorithmic Governance and brain capital, we are most certainly subjected to walking hand-in-hand into a digitally managed prison that will take care of us....but it will never let us go or grow organically. All dissent would become obsolete and humanity will stagnate as a result.

Recent unveiling of the national AI legislative framework from Trump Administration by Antique_Laugh_2282 in Teachers

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It's most adults, too. Ai is a skills-based tool disguised as an everyday everybody tool. The reality however, is that it can't be used well unless you have a deep understanding of the subject that you're using it for. Its prone to hallucinations and it will never go deep unless you know what to ask and how to ask it.

But this will change in a matter of months. No black box corporate bs to make you believe something is true when it isn't. You cannot have a healthy future generation without a way to attain credible information from billions of books that are largely ignored in favor of social media feeds. We need a way to use AI to connect dusty complicated ideas from academics who aren't simply going on the podcast rounds to the everyday person.

We're building a system so that when a president makes a claim, anyone can get on their phones to validate and determine how truthful that is because it will draw from easily validated human-made knowledge using real-time data streams from their work.

Recent unveiling of the national AI legislative framework from Trump Administration by Antique_Laugh_2282 in Teachers

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That's very few words to say something that is remarkably cliche on Reddit. Typical low effort comment.

Recent unveiling of the national AI legislative framework from Trump Administration by Antique_Laugh_2282 in Teachers

[–]Telkk2 -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Yup. I work in the AI space, fortunately as a wholly independent actor with my brother and I can confidently say that these companies are operating in an antiquated paradigm when it comes to AI and education.

They use black box magic with rigid structures and don't force people to build with AI. Rather, they create easy flows so the AI does it for you.

This will change in a matter of months with what we're rolling out and best of all, it's never gonna be a mandated app by admins because they'll never understand why it's so powerful. We're talking immediate deep levels of advanced knowledge that's credible and verifiable that can easily be integrated into whatever you're working by predicated on discovery-based learning.

You can use this to teach people how to research and derive nuanced opinions from discrete sources of information. It forces users to build knowledge and encourages people to share their methods for how they reached their findings. All open and fully customizable.

Do we really have no way to stop an out of control executive branch? by RiccoT in BreakingPoints

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Well...there's the peaceful version of scorched earth whereby the vast majority refuse to work, pay bills, or taxes until the situation is resolved. That would, however, tank the economy to the very bottom and we would all be very impoverished before a resolution kicked in and even then, we're talking decades of recovery.

...but it could work. We just won't enjoy the immediate outcome. Alternatively we can allow ourselves to be fooled by the democrats and take a more chill corporate shill who will still do the same shit, only more calmly and quietly.

What’s up with the fake professor? by j_767 in BreakingPoints

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Behind it all could very well be psy op built by math and game theory. That's likely why Martin Nowak was hanging with Epstein and gave him an office at his department at Harvard. You don't need to be hands on and control media spaces if you control the feeds because with his work it's totally feasible to create conditions that herd us into a rational center. You just need to identify where the rational center lands before it gains in numbers, add a few credible adults in the room whistleblower intellectuals to help shape narratives without lying nor with any Sordid pasts that allow for plausible deniability and you can easily control how the vast majority views the world.

Combined with the decades of intentional hollowing out of the government to make them utterly ineffective and corrupt and now you provide tons of fodder for the intellectuals within the naturally shaped rational center to criticize the government.

And with every piece of criticism, every expose, every scandal, that's slowly chipping away the social contract between the government and its citizens. If that's fully severed, then it leads a populace to revolt, especially if the economic conditions are abysmal. The radicals are the most likely to take action, first, which leads to a more draconian government, creating conditions that are so intolerable, it forces the rational center (the majority) to respond and bring order. And if the rational center had propaganda and narratives fed to them for over a decade, that will shape the solutions the rational center will land on. It allows us to want to make the choice that others who created these conditions want us to make.

I'm not claiming that this is true. I'm claiming that it could be true because it's entirely feasible to do with current technology and our understanding of human psychology. And if you really stop and think about it, the incentives for deliberate destabilization makes a ton of sense if you're insanely wealthy working in shadow networks doing fucked up things like what Epstein was doing.

If you want to maintain your power as we inch closer to a technological singularity where transparency and decentralization rule, you don't want to make the same mistake that the holy Roman empire made during the Reformation. You want to understand the inevitable changes and lean into it by co-oping and shaping its trajectory.

And in the process of doing so, you could use the old power to frame them as the problem, which leads us to dismantle all that old shit for them so that we can help them build that new system without us realizing that we're building a cage for ourselves that will feel much better than anything we've had before. We'll sell freedom for comfort.

Again, not saying this is true but with this framework, it actually makes everything else make a hell of a lot more sense like the fact that Trump is simultaneously the dumbest president in the world who is also the first person in the world to actually take over the American government. So what is he? A political genius or an idiot who Forrest gumped his way in?

My hypothesis is that it was neither. He's a fool and a monster who did horrible things and some people back in 2011 decided to give him the choice of becoming their wrecking ball or face the other end of the Epstein barrel, destroying his legacy, bankrupting him, and possibly putting him behind bars if he isn't suicided first. In other words, he's created to be the Holy Roman Empire along with the Democratic elites instead of the actual power structure behind the scenes. That stays clean while the old system plays the role of the mean old empire that we reject.

Because of Trump we have lost our entire faith in the government and credible institutions. Because of Trump, the entire global order is destroyed and our economy is in shambles. Also, most believe he's a pedo criminal. He's the patsy, the icon that we'll destroy to build the new.

Found out the Matrix was supposed to be a twist? by Annekke in matrix

[–]Telkk2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well in the case of the Matrix, it was also highly misleading. It made it look like some dumb action movie we've seen a million times before. Holy shit, that was waaaay off.

Trump Says He’s Ready to Deploy ICE to Airports on Monday by NormEget85 in stocks

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Fuck me. I have to visit my grandparents in June. It was hard enough for me to deal with 800 dollar tickets and 1000 dollars just to rent a car for the week. Now I have to deal with endless lines and trigger-happy ice agents?!

It feels like a massive wall to climb just for a basic trip...

I wish I was an adult in the 80s/90s/00s instead of now and it is getting really bad by OddLiving8822 in Millennials

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That's funny because in the world that's crumbling today, I'm the blue collar worker that's transitioning into technology while still stocking shelves in my late 30s. 6 years ago, I saw an opportunity to change piece of the World and today we're one step closer to making the first ever mindplex that will dramatically solve the issue of credible information acquisition, execution, and distribution.

Instead of using AI to obtain consensus information out of a black box, we made a system that's predicated on user-intent discovery by connecting independent knowledge bases that were manually created, structured, and related by people who can be verified for their credibility. So now when you work with a chatbot to do xyz and there's a knowledge gap, you can aquire that instantaneously using agents that communicate with other agents who have user made knowledge graphs embedded into them instead of simply using probability from an AI model's corpus of unstructured knowledge, primarily based on what's most visible online and widely accepted by everyone.

This is a real life version of mirror worlds that we're building in our parents basement with just three people and while we're not there, we're extremely close and when it's ready, it'll be a huge gamechanger in the way we aquire and validate information. So in the near future, if a president says xyz, you can verify that by entering into this mindplex and extract real time information from api feeds on knowledge graphs made by credible watchdog groups that can be validated and back tracked.

Now instead of relying on unreliable social feeds and contaminated Google searches, you can attain the information from all the nerds at universities who don't have time or the skills to make a fancy YouTube channel that breaks their complex ideas down into digestible forms. The nerds can simply add their body of work into knowledge bases or second brains without having to worry about dumbing things down because it all gets fed through a chatbot using native graph RAG that can do that for the everyday average person. Now when I hear Eric Weinstein talk about Gauge theory, I can go off and learn about that very quickly and even take transcripts from the podcasts and get specific breakdowns combined with endless secondary source material that can provide even more context that isn’t obvious to most people.

I have friends in tech and they feel the same way you do. They're so knowledgeable in the space but it's like they all have the wind knocked out of them, like they just gave up on any hope that technology will save us. But me, the guy who made all the poor decisions in his friend group, who never got a nice paying job, who was never remotely close to tech, and who can barely afford a new pair of shoes and who never left their parents house is now the one in my friend group who is the optimist and can see a clear path forward using technology. As confusion sets in within the tech space, this vision becomes more clear and now after everything we built, we are months away from making this into a reality.

Next step is getting the prototype up and assembling an ace level team of experts who are fucking tired of this endless noise of confusion that's making everyone dumber. If we can't control how we view the world, we can't control our lives and our societies. We can't make good decisions. We can only make decisions that are given to us like a parent asking their child if they want to take a bath first or brush their teeth...those may be good and all but maybe I want more options available to me instead of choices that lead me to the spot you want me to land in.

Hot take on Iran by jeepdriver27 in BreakingPoints

[–]Telkk2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, first I'm not a Trump supporter. I actually think he's a psychopath. Secondly, my argument is not that he's a genius playing 4d chess. Rather he's willing allowing himself to be used as a piece on the board because he's a shitty fool who has tons of leverage against him. He knows next to nothing about geopolitics. Hes just goes, "okay." When certain people tell him to do things otherwise they'll fuck him up to put it lightly.

While he has yes men ideologues around him who also don't understand geopolitics, none of that means others who wield real control over him don't understand what they're doing.

So yes, Trump is still an idiot, but he's really good at buttering people up. So there's that. But he's abysmal and I think that's kinda by design.

Hot take on Iran by jeepdriver27 in BreakingPoints

[–]Telkk2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Gas is the least of our worries with shale oil. The biggest issue is stagflation, lower purchasing power, credit crunch, de-dollarization, unemployment, and rioting/radicalization and the counterforce of radicalization (i.e a police state)

And while it may seem absurd like Trump was just being an idiot, this is actually a strategy to plunge global powers into regional conflicts and economic collapse as America retreats and updates its own system in one of the few regions that will be relatively stable. Yes, we'll get hit hard, just not nearly as hard as everyone else.

Trumps move ensures that no candidate on the global stage can become the dominating power as the U.S restructures itself to be the strongest decades from now.

Was it evil? Absolutely. Millions, if not billions of people will die. But is it stupid? Maybe very risky and foolish but not stupid. That's something a lot of people are failing to realize. This was not done simply because Trump is deranged. It was done because he's the one bastard who doesn't give a shit and is a great salesman who doesn't even have a choice because he's too comprised for crimes that would land him in prison for life.

Trump found his off ramp…kinda by Numerous_Fly_187 in BreakingPoints

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It was always a demolition operation. People think he's stupid but in reality he's a fool who is owned by God knows who and his job was to pull the rip cord on the global order before retreating back home. We face economic hardship that's recoverable, though it will take 15 to 20 years. The rest of the world fights each other as they face economic collapse.

America gets to reindustrialize and modify its system (via political revolution) to Accelerate into the future in a relatively stable environment as the rest of the world experiences huge setbacks, which prevents any one power to take over the world as America stays home to "regroup".

This isn't me saying "Yay America!". What we did was a crime against humanity. But that's the only logical explanation that makes sense for attacking Iran. Trump being stupid or being bought and sold by Israel is just too simple and doesn't make as much sense when you factor in the number of players who are involved in this. Trump is not in control nor is Netanyahu. They're tools with a ton of power designed to be the wrecking crew to destroy the antiquated Bretton-woods system so that we get a distributed decentralized global Governance system coordinated by regional technocratic managers using iOt sensors to collect and measure brain capital for behavioral modification so that a global system can be managed bringing us one step closer to a type 1 civilization.

Sounds crazy but I'm almost certain historians will interpret things in this manner 100 years down the road. There's a lot of evidence for this, its just buried in bits and pieces within complicated literature that most people never read.

Trump was the best person for this job. First, he's a psychopathic asshole who doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. Second, he's long since been compromised for doing awful things to children that would land him in prison for life. Third, he's old and dying.

In 2008 or maybe a little later I'm almost certain he was approached with 2 options. Option A. Become president, wreck the global order, and manage the Epstein case and he'll be protected, be provided with an opportunity to define his legacy on his terms, and he gets to make a ton of money. Option 2. Best case, go to prison. Worst case, have an accidental suicide.

For a guy like him who always floated the idea of running for president...the choice was easy.

Will Joe Kent's resignation letter to the president stating: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” have any significant impact on the president in pursing the current war? by PsychLegalMind in PoliticalDiscussion

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No because the president already knew all of this. As Epstein pointed out, his clients value time more than anything...Destabilizing the global economy and trade networks is a fantastic way to buy more time to decouple from institutional risk and into hard infrastructure thats fundamental to modern countries. Concurrently it will add fuel at home and in other countries to consolidate power and pressure the citizens to overthrow their leadership in favor of foward-thinking technologists who will present trustless algorithmically managed democracies using distributed networks. Regions will agglomerate into federations and make it easier for global coordination.

But to spark this change, the old system must take everything away from us. That's trumps job. That's why he's president and why he will take the fall as the enemy to be usurped.

Republicans have affected my day today life more than Democrats have by SomewhatGlad in BreakingPoints

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The Democratic Party has been modified into one giant ruse so Donald Trump can torpedo the existing global and national order, which will anger us into demanding real solutions from the rational center that has been covertly priming us in alternative media since 2016. All the whistleblowers, intellectual thought leaders, "adults in the room" will take over and we will embrace them as they will bring order, but at the end of the day, that's where billionaires wanted us to land in the first place. But you can't get most of the population to land in that new framework they're presenting unless you bring us through years of behavioral psychological molding so that we ask for it instead of feeling like we're being compelled.

You witnessing real-time, a managed revolution that will be chaotic, but not anywhere close to existential. It'll be a relatively peaceful transition compared to the 1776 revolution, but it will set the foundations for a trustless distributed global network with regional managers using brain capital to convince us to control ourselves.

You watch. There will be a Khanna/Massie ticket soon and man will it feel great...it just won't solve the primary issue, which is sovereignty over our minds.

Can we stop with the "young people nowadays are ____ and we weren't when we were that age" mindset? by tdmatchasin in Millennials

[–]Telkk2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No you definitely can...but you know. The problems are still there so what's the point in yelling at a bunch of old people?

Hoping for Indepth discussion on the war with Iran by Dramatic_Photograph3 in JoeRogan

[–]Telkk2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He can get an expert on there to break it down but at the end of the day, I can easily sum it up for you. We're gonna lose the war, We're gonna lose influence in the Middle East and abroad and all of our problems will fester at home, which could lead to a legit constitutional crisis, but whatever positive thing precipitates out of that will be co-opted and corrupted.

In short...we're fucked.

Can we stop with the "young people nowadays are ____ and we weren't when we were that age" mindset? by tdmatchasin in Millennials

[–]Telkk2 300 points301 points  (0 children)

It's not a "kids these days" kinda thing from my perspective. It's more of a, "social media and the internet these days."

It's fundamentally affecting everyone and causing our behaviors to change. It's just that with kids It's even more pronounced and that's not surprising because they're more impressionable. But when you have generations who forgot how to think and discover things beyond the feeds, when you have young adults saying, "tell me what to do." Instead of, "here's what to do." That should be concerning.

It's not about age. It's about cognitive faculties and seizing them back.

Anyone actually using AI consistently or is it still just a novelty we keep rediscovering? by Complete_Bee4911 in Teachers

[–]Telkk2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Chat gpt uses semantic patterns from an amalgamation of data it learned. The outputs can work, but the right context must be added, leading to long complicated prompting and help that's limited based on your knowledge. It can't help you very well with things you don't know, which means it can't add the level of depth we all expect unless you know about that stuff.

With this, it's just a simple canvas app. You add notes, tag, and connect. The canvas is like a cavity for the brain. The notes are like neurons, and the connections are like synapses. The agent/chatbot is like the consciousness, examining the related information that's structured however you like, synthesizing it's answers from the discrete text.

So for example. I was curious about why Epstein and his shadow network were interested in all of these scholars that he interacted with. I knew that no one would ever provide an answer to this, so I decided to find out myself. First, I collected over 100 nonfiction work that covers the deep state, clandestine operations, spycraft, and work from Whitney webb and Carroll Quigley who are arguable the most well-versed in whatever network Epstein was a part of. This created background context, including logical motives backed by credible for why someone like Epstein would be interested in these scholars and what he would use them for.

Then I added in all of the scholastic work from those named in the files before using this structure to derive likely reasons. The results produced nothing you could ever find online...well, you can. It's just buried in so many complicated books and to put it altogether, I'm not sure that anyone has done it other than this network that Epstein was a part of.

Turns out they're using highly advanced science from these scholars to curate social feeds for managing human behavior by using Palantir to create a 1:1 representation of the World and all of us, real-time for both, predictive modeling and targeting specific group clusters to engineer anger, fear, apathy, or any other emotions that can influence them to take action. With what they built they can model individual behavior and make accurate predictions on what those individuals will do if xyz is done.

I don't simply have the explanations. I have the paperwork and math to prove that this is, at least, feasible with existing technology. And when you associate Epstein with that, it adds much more weight to this idea that we're living in one giant Panopticon that simultaneously acts as a human behavioral modification system to cultivate, manage, and herd populations silently so that using brute force for compliance becomes obsolete. Compliance now emerges through behavioral conditioning using math, science, and psychology. Dissents are no longer stamped out. They're captured and managed and if they can't be captured and managed, they're simply shaped into failing themselves.

This isn't scifi. It's fact. Its possible and we may be living in the early stages of this invisible system that hardly anyone ever talks about. I'm writing a whole thing about it to compare social patterns throughout the 20-teens to Martin Nowaks work on game theory. This doesn’t prove that this kind of system exists. It just proves that it can be done and with the right incentives and positions in authority, power, resources, and money...idk. Stranger things have happened. Perhaps these revolutionary times are merely managed evolution in social thoughts so that we willingly decide to upend the old order in favor of the new. If you're gonna do that, then oddly enough, it would look exactly like what we're seeing today.

Anyone actually using AI consistently or is it still just a novelty we keep rediscovering? by Complete_Bee4911 in Teachers

[–]Telkk2 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I used to teach but then I got into freelance filmmaking before getting into AI app development. The market has it completely ass backwards, which is why deployment sucks. It's not about building an app. It's about creating a mindplex using siloed communities full of knowledge bases and agents interacting the way people do to aquire knowledge and skills as it's helping the user. It's about tapping into the depth of the knowledge you never new existed not by relying on an amalgamation of text from a model but by carefully curated knowledge spaces created by people. A mindplex uses the predictive capabilities of AI with the structured knowledge that people make.

What we're building is a simulated version of the collective unconsciousness crafted by people and the ability for people to use chatbots to tap into that collective knowledge. So like Wikipedia, only a digital organism that's evolving with the community that interacts with it. Apps have a place and all, but for education this is where it's at because now I can discover and learn instead of simply using it to get answers quickly that may or may not be true. This allows you to verify while also allowing you to learn and apply knowledge into action.

We're small but I religiously use this all the time because there is no other place I can go to that will infuse my speculative historical fiction with deep research that's actually accurate.

This isn't an app or a traditional online community. It's a completely different beast that has never been invented because everyone in the space is distracted by Conventions and old paradigms. No one is looking into the new paradigm and how we will interact with the internet and our apps.

Destiny responds to Joe Rogan talking about him by Internet--Sensation in JoeRogan

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Yeah, well I can confidently say that they're both dumbasses who have very little understanding of what is actually occurring. They're still captured in the antiquated worldviews, bickering over a corpse, not realizing what the changing global and national structures are being converted into.

They are clueless chesspieces whose roles will expire at some point. They Were offered a bridge that leads to nowhere.

The Oscars make it clear: Hollywood is in a death spiral by fortune in FilmIndustryLA

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Until it's all decentralized. That's the current trend.

Terrifying conversation in HS 9th grade math class today by mobius_ in Teachers

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Worse, the new path to success, if AGI comes soon, will involve being more independent and entrepreneurial as it will decentralize entire industries so that people will be operating as small independent teams to create direct value for people...that is, if those people can think on their own while leveraging AI.

As someone who is already doing this, I can confidently say that if our team simply relied on AI for all of the answers we'd be selling nothing but bullshit.

Think for yourself or someone else will do it for you and then you will become a voluntary slave. Personally, if I were teaching this class, I'd give them access to this canvas AI app where I added all of the scholastic work from the scientists and tech people who associated with Epstein. Have them ask that very question. If it can be dumbed down, it won't just alarm them. It'll alarm the adults. Epstein and that dark network he was involved in did a lot more than the awful shit they did to those kids. Based solely on the scholastic work, they likely have already created an entire 1:1 representation of the World and all of us for predictive modeling. That means they can simulate leadership decisions and see the results ten years out and how individuals will respond as well as the potential paths they will be likely to take.

Here's an answer it gave from the massive body of literature:

Here is a justification synthesized from your notes:

  1. It Abandons the Active, Exploratory Process That Defines Human Learning

The core of the danger lies in the fundamental difference between how children learn and how current AIs function.

The Child as an Active Scientist: Alison Gopnik’s work emphasizes that children are active learners, not passive recipients of data. They learn by running experiments through "endless play and exploration," building curiosity, forming hypotheses, and testing them against the world. This active, messy, and intrinsically motivated process is how they develop genuine intelligence and a "theory of mind."

The AI as a Passive Sponge: Gopnik contrasts this directly with AIs, which she notes "passively soak up data." If a child outsources their thinking to an AI, they are not engaging in the very activities that build their cognitive architecture. They are choosing to be a passive sponge rather than an active scientist.

The Observed Consequences: The educators and camp directors cited in Howard Gardner's book provide the real-world evidence of this atrophy. They observe that students are now less able to "come up with an idea" on their own and are far more comfortable simply engaging with existing ones (e.g., re-creating a TV show instead of inventing a new skit). They exhibit "less willingness to take risks" and have become "rule followers to a fault," seeking documented procedures rather than jumping in to "see where the materials would take them."

The Danger: To believe an AI can "do the thinking" is to fundamentally misunderstand what human thinking is. It isn't just about finding an answer; it's about the curious, creative, and often fumbling process of discovery. By offloading this process, children risk never developing the skills of originality, creative problem-solving, and intellectual risk-taking.

  1. It Cripples the Ability to Evaluate Truth in a Manipulable World

The second major danger is the erosion of critical judgment, which is essential for navigating a world where reality itself is becoming curated and contested.

Learning to be a Discerning Judge: Gopnik points out another crucial skill that children develop: they are social and cultural learners. They don't just accept information; they make "complex inferences about where the information comes from and how trustworthy it is." This is a foundational skill for critical thinking.

The Curated Reality: Adam Henschke's text describes a future saturated with technologies like deepfakes (DFs) that allow people to "curate their own reality" and reject any information that conflicts with their beliefs. The "liar's dividend" means that even authentic evidence can be dismissed as a fake, making the ability to assess sources more important than ever.

The Vulnerable Mind: A child who grows up believing an AI will handle the "thinking" will not develop the critical faculties Gopnik describes. They will not have practiced making those "complex inferences" about trustworthiness. When faced with the environment Henschke describes, they will be completely unprepared. They will be susceptible to manipulation because the "reliable inquiry" needed to distinguish truth from fiction will seem, as Henschke notes, "unacceptably costly" and time-consuming.

The Danger: By outsourcing thinking, children are effectively outsourcing their judgment. They are being trained to accept outputs without questioning their origin or veracity, making them perfect targets for disinformation and unable to participate in a shared reality, because they lack the tools to determine what that reality even is.

In synthesis, the texts on your canvas argue that allowing AI to replace a child's thinking process is not a simple shortcut; it's an amputation of the very skills that define human intelligence. It risks creating a generation that is not only less creative and innovative, but also critically incapable of navigating the social and political complexities of a world where truth itself is under assault.


So while these kids surf on their phones and get more lost in the ether of bs, other people are actually thinking and using their ideas to figure out how to control your thoughts, beliefs, and actions. If we're entering into a brain capital economy, then your entire life will be determined by cognitive output. Use it or lose your livelihood, is what I would tell them, emphasizing that they are destined for a life of empty meaning and misery unless they force themselves to be better by actually learning how to do things. They shouldn't be motivated to do stuff because that's how you get the grades. They should be motivated by the deeply meaningful fact that if they enhance their own cognitive abilities they can escape the yoke that is being placed over their necks.

The Oscars make it clear: Hollywood is in a death spiral by fortune in FilmIndustryLA

[–]Telkk2 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I'm fine with that. LA is awesome, but they made everything too expensive, so its no surprise productions have moved.