The Age of DE In The Age Of A.I
Time to reflect
This column was bumped several times in the past four months. Thought streams are moving so much faster this epoch. I have a series coming up that is connected to this storyline, so here it is to set the tone. Also, I wish to announce a major milestone for Cultural Philosophical Fireworks…. We have gone over 2K followers!!! I didn’t know because I do not track followers. I focus on subscribers. But I say many thanks for the following and look forward to deeper connection! After all aren’t we here on “The Stack’ to connect. Can anyone tell me what does that mean here on Substack? Now lets dive into the storyline!
We are in the age of De:
Demoralize
Dehumanize
Demonetize
Derivative
Dereality
Demateialize
Delaborization (prior column)
Decay
DEthink
DEunique
DEnuance
This is what the A.I will accomplish unless you take action and not leaving it all up to Silicon Valley to handle and your government officials. This is a global issue! Time to wake up and realize this is the ‘existential threat’ for humans. We have to not wait for government to do something. It is imperative we do something ourselves. We must remember especially here in America the government works for you not the opposite!!! Do they not teach that in school anymore? Americans have to puff their chest out and remind all of the elected officials in their life that you work for me… the voter!! The voter must remember their heritage and the constitutional birthright. The tools are available for the American people.
Post script this was conceived pre 1/20/25. So I have decided to add this to fluff it up! In this age of the human becoming a commodity to be extracted from in every sense of what the word in this D.A.I.C aka Digital Artificial Intelligence Complex. Every keystroke we do is monitored and feeds this complex.
We are in a time when the mind will become a static entity. With less physical interaction in the world of human beings due to being stuck behind a screen, our experiences will collapse and this will decapitate language and fresh storytelling! Sitting behind a screen clicking on a mouse does refresh the human experience. The threat of words losing there nuance is a real credible threat in our immediate future.
A.I agents will speed all of this up. The ability of humans to make decisions will atrophy because we are now here for the machines and A.I feeding frenzy. We will lose the element of intangibility which is a secret sauce of the everyday human being. From there our independence will suffer immensely. This will lead to an abundant homogenization of what is called thought and the human being!
What is terrifying to me is we shall lose the idea of going through the process and what that entails. Human Learning will suffer!! Everything becomes short term in this so called ‘data base reality’.
We are sacrificing brain power for speed! We shall lose context with all of this A.I and even more the human is losing their essence. Our imagination will be demanded much less which means imagination will suffer!
At the end of the day reality is multi dimensional. A photo doesn’t interact with the olfactory element of reality. Neither does a recording or a film. For that matter neither A.I. We have witnessed a systemic stripping of honest reality realms. A.I comes now to expand on this which can not be good for humanity’s depiction of what is called reality. Be very aware of this.
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Disclaimer: Absolutely no A.I utilized in this periodical. Only H.I aka Human Intuitiveness
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once again, overwhelmingly thoughtful and powerfully impactful.
Congrats on that milestone!
I also think that "losing the element of intangibility," as you put it, is the risk we're facing. I'm currently trying to study the whole phenomenon through my latest series of posts, and I find that what we can actually do about it is foster a healthy conversation—confronting these issues philosophically.
As always, in the end, the responsibility (as the other side of the coin to freedom) lies with the individual. Since the early days of 56k Internet, I've been watching with stupor the public’s willingness to give way to their urge to "autocomplete"—a mechanism that facilitates things so much that, unconsciously, one starts giving away their own thinking process.
But, as also happens with drugs and other technological tools, they are not intrinsically good or bad—they're neutral—and it is the user who gives them moral direction. Speaking for myself, I've been navigating the whole democratization of the digital world with a firm hand, never releasing the helm, and I’d argue that is the way to go.
I do use AI for my work because my particular project benefits from it to the point of allowing me to make it sustainable. But I'd still argue that the "100% human" hasn't changed one iota. To stop rambling: my worry is not that the machine will become human, but that the human will keep becoming mechanical. I think you're on the same page.
I also believe that anything has value due to its scarcity. So, now that digitalness and automation are so developed, I’m hearing voices like yours with renewed appreciation for the purely human. I'm optimistic about the possibilities we have now—if we don't lose ourselves to inertia.