Post #3704807

Gonna be unpopular here but here it goes anyway. The promotion of free thought and “using your brain” was a remnant of your childhood. We are (correctly to a degree) associating this with AI because it is the current evolution of working class control. However, it is not unique in its goal. Your parents and grandparents experienced this in similar ways. Sometimes the carrot and sometimes the stick. But, we romanticize the past so we focus on previous generations “having it easier”. And, again, there is truth to this, clearly. The material conditions of the current and upcoming generations have declined. But, this is only because the ruling class of society has grown more confident in their ability to distract and corral it’s laboring class. For no generation in recent history have we been encouraged to “use our brains” or “think freely”. There was just a lot more carrot previously than there was the stick. The bread and circus was better maintained. AI is not primarily used to keep you from thinking. No, the systems that existed before it worked and are working quite well for that. It may have that side effect and it’s welcome for the capitalist class. But AI is meant primarily to empower “the stick” with constant surveillance and control over each and every individual that dares to ask what happened to “the carrots”.