Re:Ask HN: Should we be afraid of AI?
by gsatic on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:55PM
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You don't have to get yourself better informed. Info asymmetry and knowledge gaps are at all time highs.
There is nothing gained asking random ppl to be better "educated and informed" about things even experts are still processing.
Just remember, all the thousands of news stories and podcasts and stand up comedy routines and movies and shows "educating and informing the public" did absolutely nothing to stop the iraq/afghan war, or the 2008 meltdown, or the election of circus clowns, or the mindless attention economy and so many other serious issues. Zero effect on outcomes.
So there is this "let me tell you how to think and feel about x" buffoon class army that pops up everywhere these days. They are not doing anything useful (or abv outcomes wld be different) Other than collecting likes/followers to pay their own mortgages. So tune them out.
Leave things to the experts, is the least time/energy wasting move available.
There is nothing gained asking random ppl to be better "educated and informed" about things even experts are still processing.
Just remember, all the thousands of news stories and podcasts and stand up comedy routines and movies and shows "educating and informing the public" did absolutely nothing to stop the iraq/afghan war, or the 2008 meltdown, or the election of circus clowns, or the mindless attention economy and so many other serious issues. Zero effect on outcomes.
So there is this "let me tell you how to think and feel about x" buffoon class army that pops up everywhere these days. They are not doing anything useful (or abv outcomes wld be different) Other than collecting likes/followers to pay their own mortgages. So tune them out.
Leave things to the experts, is the least time/energy wasting move available.