Is humanity too far gone?

Consider how stupid the average person is. Now remember that half of them are stupider than that.

• George Carlin

The way I see it, people who avoid genAI are going to eventually rule over the people who have let their minds atrophy. They'll be brain dead enough that we would easily be able to take back our planet from those empty shells once called humans.

Does this sound extreme? Yes! I am very aware of how bad this all sounds.

Do I care? No. I only care about those who wish to willingly atrophy their brain if they choose to remedy that problem. I am too far above them, otherwise, to give a damn. My autism refuses to let me become one of those creatures.

I know that look you saw. I enjoy it. If people ask me what I think I usually give them some version of "I prefer my critical thinking unaltered, thank you"

All my schoolmates thought I was crazy when I told them I didn't have a Facebook or Twitter account. Now who's laughing? Stay strong, this too shall pass.

I'm in IT. And I don't use AI. I do troubleshooting, repair, all the way to infrastructure and installation of entire companies. No need for it. My brother on the other hand is in software development and graphic design and he can't stop talking about it and it's use cases. He was even trying to encourage me to use it to plan out wiring. I simply said no that's idiotic.

Wut

It's fucking weird that people outsource that much of their mind to a thing that cannot think or feel, and is coded to steal as much of a person's attention as possible. To be fair because my own memory is bad (when it comes to things that don't interest me), I use basic programs (Calendar, Contacts) and the like to store information. Never, ever will I rely on a fucking LLM to do my thinking, research, or work for me. As I am capable of that, even though I might not remember if I ate or not a few hours ago. ROFL

No, and Ted was a fool.

Yep

What would happen if you asked an Amish about living without phones or Internet? Our memory and attention span has already been going down the crapper. I think humanity's been doomed since the invention of tools and passing on development. I feel guilty of it at times when spending money on new, shiny, unnecessary hardware.

Mind you, AI is exceptionally bad, but that's mostly because of the bubble going on, making it affordable for masses when only the rich (unfortunately) should afford it. And the rich have been brainrotted since ancient Rome, or earlier.

I only read parts of Unabomber's manifesto and don't remember much. I think most of it was either obvious already (but maybe spoken fancier) or I disagreed.

How old are you? 14?
If that is so, I was of the impression that you had to be of age to make a Lemmy account and I see good reasons for that.
If you are older than that, why do you glamorize a misogynistic loser who had his head so far up his own ass that his idea of making the world a better place was bombing and killing random people with package bombs?\