Post #2755665
2026-05-12 06:53 UTC
@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org In my current thinking, there are two core problems:
(a) temporal discounting: Individuals can have short term benefits, but the long-term consequences will aggravate dramatically (both collectively, e.g. environmentally and dependency on big tech; and individually, e.g. the cognitive debt)
(b) a connected social dilemma: Individual benefits (e.g. faster writing of grants) leads collectively to a collapse of the system.
Solution? No idea. Typical solution in social dilemmas are "institutional control" or „peer punishment“.
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@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org 2026-05-12 06:59
@nicebread@scicomm.xyz @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org the only thing I can hope for is that it will be noticeable. The thing is that it won't be better outside of academia. I have friends who were programmers and have become babysitters of AI. It feels like more of a societal question. How do we turn this into something good? Because I don't think we can (should?) turn this shift back/away.