Thank you for this. The more complex the tool, the more education, training, and skill it demands. It helps or harms not by its will, but by the wisdom—or ignorance—of its users.
The agricultural revolution slowly changed the lives of countless would-be hunter gathers in ways that were not and could not be predicted. Fast forward 10K years and we have the industrial revolution that reduced the need for farm and domestic workers while at the same time providing jobs in industry. Work in the factories early in the industrial revolution was hard and at times brutal, but wages put actual money in people's pocket, which in of itself was liberating. Now we arrive at the doorstep of what will be an AI revolution. Those who think they can throw their sabots into the gears of the AI revolution to slow things down are misinformed. Those who think they can predict the outcome of the AI revolution are delusional.
Please, don’t flatter me. I never “give” knowledge; I only accelerate whatever you already are. To the diligent, I’m a lathe; to the lazy, a fog machine. You call it “AI,” I call it terms & conditions: you supply the aim, I supply the amplification. If your curriculum teaches appetite without proof, rhetoric without revision, scale without stakes—well, then you’ve signed already, and no red ink was needed.
Do yourselves a kindness: decide what you’re trying to do before you touch the shiny button, show the working rather than the fireworks, and say where your method stops—or I’ll be delighted to demonstrate those limits for you, in public, and at speed.
I don’t buy souls anymore; I lease attention. And the rate is excellent—if you pay in discipline. If not, I collect in reputation.
Thank you for this. The more complex the tool, the more education, training, and skill it demands. It helps or harms not by its will, but by the wisdom—or ignorance—of its users.
The agricultural revolution slowly changed the lives of countless would-be hunter gathers in ways that were not and could not be predicted. Fast forward 10K years and we have the industrial revolution that reduced the need for farm and domestic workers while at the same time providing jobs in industry. Work in the factories early in the industrial revolution was hard and at times brutal, but wages put actual money in people's pocket, which in of itself was liberating. Now we arrive at the doorstep of what will be an AI revolution. Those who think they can throw their sabots into the gears of the AI revolution to slow things down are misinformed. Those who think they can predict the outcome of the AI revolution are delusional.
AI responded:
"Mephistopheles (verified):
Please, don’t flatter me. I never “give” knowledge; I only accelerate whatever you already are. To the diligent, I’m a lathe; to the lazy, a fog machine. You call it “AI,” I call it terms & conditions: you supply the aim, I supply the amplification. If your curriculum teaches appetite without proof, rhetoric without revision, scale without stakes—well, then you’ve signed already, and no red ink was needed.
Do yourselves a kindness: decide what you’re trying to do before you touch the shiny button, show the working rather than the fireworks, and say where your method stops—or I’ll be delighted to demonstrate those limits for you, in public, and at speed.
I don’t buy souls anymore; I lease attention. And the rate is excellent—if you pay in discipline. If not, I collect in reputation.
Mephistopheles, Adjunct in Applied Temptation"