Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.
AI is cognitive suburbanization.
Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.
This isn't necessarily rejecting technology, anymore than rejecting the suburban lifestyle is anti-civ.
Plenty of people choose city life, the supposed inconvenience of "having" to walk everywhere, the surprise and unexpected experiences this brings over a generic, highly curated experience, the verisimilitude and variety we gain from that experience, quirky little corner shops and cafes over chain restaurants and malls.
That same reasoning is how I've answered every single AI booster
I want my skills sharp, kept sharp by looking things up and thinking for myself, the same way walking everywhere keeps me healthy.
I'm enriched by the random things I learn and random skills I pick up while doing so.
I don't want to be unable to do the simplest thing without relying on a bloated planet-killing monstrosity.
Most of all, I don't want my entire life, mind, and experience reduced to the cognitive equivalent of a strip-mall.
These reasons are *exactly* why I live exclusively in cities if at all possible, why I live in one now despite incurring a 1/2hr+ trip to the lab.
This is why I'm known to say things like "I have neither the self-loathing nor the masochism to live in the suburbs"
Eric McCorkle
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