yes you need to read things to understand them, but also going balls deep into a complex concept or topic with no lube can be pretty rough, and deter the attempt, or future attempts.
also do you know what else is corporate slop? the warner/disney designed art world? every non-silicon paperclip maximizing pattern? the software matters more than the substrate.
the pattern matters more than the tool.
people called digital art/3d art ‘slop’ for the same reason.
my argument was the same back then. it’s not the tool, it’s the system.
‘CGI doesn’t help anyone’
attacking the tool of CGI doesn’t help anyone either.
that being said… AI does literally help some people. for many things. google search was my favourite AI tool 25 years ago, but it’s definitely not right now.
the slop algorithms were decided by something else even before that. see: enshittification and planned obsolescence.
aka, overfitting towards an objective function in the style of goodheart’s law.
also you can read a ‘thing’ but if you’re just over-fitting without making any transferable connections, you’re only feeding your understanding of that state-space/specific environment. also other modalities are important. why LLMs aren’t ‘superintelligent’ despite being really good with words. that’s an anthropocentric bias in understanding intelligent systems. i know a lot of people who read self help/business novels, which teach flawed heuristics. which books unlearn flawed heuristics?
early reading can lead to better mental models for interacting with counterfactual representations. can we give mental tools for counterfactual representation some hype?
could you dive into that with no teachers/AI to help you? would you be more likely to engage with the help?
it’s a complicated situation, but overfitting binary representations is not the solution to navigating complexity.
could you explain how? or how the examples i gave are not as valid to your current direction of critique?
i’m not saying ‘i’m intelligent’ or ‘the system will not abuse these tools’
are you suggesting my understanding is overfit to a certain niche, and there is a flagrant blindspot that wasn’t addressed by my earlier comment?
also i use uncommon words for specificity, not to obfuscate. if something hasn’t made sense, i would also elaborate. (we also have modern tools to help unravel such things as well, if you don’t have a local tutor for the subject.)
or we can just give inaccurate caricatures of each other, and each-others points of view. surely that will do something other than feed the ignorance and division driven socio-economic paperclip maximizer that we are currently stuck in.