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I call it chaotic war of all against all.
The chaotic demented war is one side of the coin.
The other side is the automation of linguistic behavior, existential paths, and expectations.
Chaos and the automaton develop and grow in a violent symbiotic relationship.
Whatever attitude one chooses toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons—a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.
Propaganda
Edward L. Bernays
It follows, then, that encouraging people to use generative models for feats of pseudo-creation can be a way of preventing them from experiencing freedom, from experiencing the specific kind of pleasure that Kant links to aesthetic judgment — the mind’s awareness of its own conceptualizing activity and how this capability authorizes a shared understanding of the world, a common sense.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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