Perhaps it is just a matter of not playing the game of 'good vs evil', just forging your own path, because the system owns the path of least resistance.
Chatgpt convo:
For such a simple prompt, this got heavy
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quickly. So I said to Chad, "Answer this
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for someone living a normal life who
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senses something is off but can't quite
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put a finger on it. Don't try to
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persuade or change their viewpoints. If
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there is hope, lay it on them. If
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there's real danger, tell it like it is.
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And for the love of sweetness, do not
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hold back." Then I said to it, "People
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say history doesn't repeat. It rhymes.
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If you had to pick a past moment that
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feels similar to now, what is it? And it
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said 1453.
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Of course, I had to look that up. And it
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and I said, "The fall of Constantinople.
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Why?" And it said, "Because the world
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didn't end. It reorganized. Power
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shifted roots. I see the exact same
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pattern forming now."
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I said, "Okay." I also hear people
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comparing now to the Cold War. If you
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had to put a percentage on it, how
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similar is it? It said 70%.
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I said, "Why so high?" It said, "Same
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arms race, same secrecy, but a different
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weapon." And I said, "Which is?" And it
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said, "Decision advantage."
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So I said, "Why does decision advantage
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matter so much?" And it said, "Because
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it rigs the game before you know you're
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playing. Force reacts decision advantage
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curates. It limits the menu before you
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even walk into the restaurant.
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I said, "What do you think your average
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person is totally misunderstanding right
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now?" And it said they think AI is about
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tools getting smarter. It's actually
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about human agency getting cheaper.
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I hate that.
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So I said, I thought it was about making
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our lives better.
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And it said empowerment was the pitch.
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Dependency is the business model.
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said, "Damn, that's intense." Genuinely
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wondering, "Is there anything we can do
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to change this trajectory?"
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Here's where it gets just like starts
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punching us in the face. It says, "Stop
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trading your intuition for convenience.
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Every time you let an algorithm tell you
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what to watch, where to go, or how to
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write, you train it to replace you."
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I said, "So, is the solution to stop
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using you?" And it said, "The solution
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is struggle. Do the hard thing. Write
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the draft yourself. Take the unoptimized
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route. The system owns the path of least
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resistance. Don't walk it.
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I mean, this went so much farther and
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deeper than I thought it was going to
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go. I don't ask this often, but if you
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like if you felt that here, share this
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or drop a comment.
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Insane.