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> So Sam Altman first creates the situation that we can no longer distinguish humans from bots…

Any time human communication is mediated by technology there’s the chance that the communication is not really what it seems to be. Are we watching live events on TV or a recording of live events or a reenactment of actual events or complete fiction?

In some sense, on the internet everything is already a bot, it’s just that right now the majority of the bots are directed by humans in real time. I fully expect the majority of bots will be semi or fully autonomous in the coming years. (Maybe we’ll stop staring at screens all day.)

>>jt2190+(OP)
I'm absolutely on the train for the complete debasement of media, especially mass media. All of those networks of trust that we've been told are unwieldy at scale to implement are going to become a necessity. We'll finally be able to break people of the habit of using TV as a certificate authority.

>>jt2190+(OP)
We will look back on this time as the point we realized we're already cybernetic and have been for a while.

For instance, many of us are already offloading memories onto our phones, Johnny Mnemonic-style, wirelessly. Just because it doesn't look the way it does in science-fiction doesn't mean it isn't happening.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/05/1022041...