My harshest reading is that they're narcissistic snowflakes who overvalue their work simply because they did it.
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This is a form of temporal egotism. We have identities anchored in personal/collective history, and we like to think distribution we are attached to is the distribution of input value. Chances are, an AI approaching any given problem you take on will throw away most of history.
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Final final point. I flagged conversational media eating authorial media. This has been my personal ego challenge. It is hard to admit, having spent 10y building up an identity/vanity around my longform, that my conversational thinking embedded in the GSCITC is better quality.
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You had me till this tweet. This sounds exactly like Tim Allen using quantum mechanics as a “case in point”. :)
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Yeah, we're replacing you with a fairly simple AI pretty soon

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But yes, for most of your work your google-fu will have a larger appreciable positive effect on it than you sitting in a corner. Though I think it’s because what we value has changed as much as our social media immersion has.
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perhaps why I can't stay enthralled by a book for more than 10 minutes or so—rare breaks from this have been Up In The Air by
@walterkirn, can't remember another. assuming GSCITC is "great social computer in the cloud"?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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