AI is now basically a fucking FACTOR OF PRODUCTION,
It’s a crucial factor in our venture to fashion reality – physical and abstract – according to our design
Therefore AI shall be the engine — wait for it you’ve never heard it — new industrial revolution
therefore…
NOT USING AI is basically NOT PARTICIPATING COMPETITIVELY in the modern economy
-it’s a HUGE DISADVANTAGE
-it’s like NOT being able to read, or NOT having driving licence = limits the scope of economically viable activities that you can perform
Furthermore,
You can use your brain, or you can use someone else’s brain
You only had so much ability before to use someone else’s intelligence,
Indeed you were able to read books
You were sometimes able to talk to someone smart
You probably didn’t do much of either of the two
You likely didn’t have access to intelligent employees to do the thinking for you
Well now you do
You can literally set THINKING IN MOTION
According to your design
And this of course means — if you’re not doing that — you’re stupid
Not just stupid for NOT doing that
You’re RELATIVELY MORE STUPID than someone else who does it
Someone else now has an immense brain, open-ended brain
Verily this is analogous to being illiterate, uneducated, etc.
Obviously this sets you behind in every way: your intelligence, your judgement, your problem-solving, your understanding, your speed of learning, etc.
Finally,
AI is the new proxy for SELF-IMPROVEMENT, period
Each time has its fashions and opportunities
I still think the most important is “solving your REAL TANGIBLE PROBLEMS” today, to make your life and yourself better
ironically AI helps there massively too
but the most successful tend to massively correlate with this OPEN-MINDEDNESS and ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET and COURAGE and EXPLORATORY MINDSET — that is necessary to QUICKLY SEIZE NEW OPPORTUNITIES
so VIA NEGATIVA — NOT following the NEW HOT THING (at all) is a major RED FLAG
if you CAN’T TAKE ADVANTAGE of REAL OPPORTUNITIES, WINDFALLS you’re getting — then how will you IMPROVE ANYTHING ELSE, when it’s much harder?
life and improvement is hard WITHOUT making it harder
AI is non-negotiable, tech-utopianism or not
it’s fucking intelligence
it’s data processing
You wouldn’t dispose of your intelligence
Well this is your intelligence now
And this is your interface to the anima mundi now
This is not techno-bs, this is philosophical reality and real reality