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Comment by danparsonson

8 hours ago

You could justify basically anything with that logic. Change isn't always about progress.

In this case, the user is deciding that they choose what progress is. I am saying, that people who use the tool and value the utility of it decide what is progress. If people listen to the podcast, or use doctors in the phone because it provides them any value, it will be a change and a perceived progress for them.

If the generated podcasts did not bring any value to the users, such as validation, or engagement, they would not use them, and there would be no change.

  • "But how does the collapse of truth and meaning in society affect you personally?"

    https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2565163-smugjak-but-how-does...

    • Your meaning and your truth, not necessarily other peoples who find their meaning and truth in other things.

      Go to China, or Congo and you will find that the public might hold a different version of some truths than you do.

      We had religions dominating the world order for thousands of years, which projected their versions of the truth onto their societies.

      If we would extrapolate that to today and to your opinion, it would be that everyone in the middle ages actually had it all figured out, they knew that the religious texts about splitting oceans or the moon were fake, and were all just playing along with it for the social structure.

      Maybe it just happens that the LLM-generated stuff is the next thing in this iteration.

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