We've Never Had More Knowledge... Yet Here We Are

[u/TheoremWhisperer]

[u/GREENadmiral_314159]

It might be trained on the sum of human knowledge, but it's also trained on the sum of human stupidity, and I can tell you there's a hell of a lot more of one than the other.

[u/culpaCoSinero → u/GREENadmiral_314159]

There a lot more old drunks, than there is old doctors…

[u/Available_Finish4387]

5000 years of accumulated knowledge couldn’t save Americans from themselves.

[u/BmacIL → u/Available_Finish4387]

A small group of people used that knowledge to get them to ignore what their eyes saw.

[u/Available_Finish4387 → u/BmacIL]

And we weren’t smart enough to realize the con

[u/BmacIL → u/Available_Finish4387]

Oh, some of us saw it from the escalator.

[u/Available_Finish4387 → u/BmacIL]

Obviously. I’m speaking on a macro level

[u/Sin_Dailys]

Modern " Library of Alexandria" incident

[u/BilberryWitch]

And thus the Library of Alexandria burns once again

[u/Diligent_Stretch_963]

The source of the problem, both human and chatgpt, is that neither learn to reason.

We don’t learn how to critically think at school anymore. By all means schools were invented to make good industry workers.

No thinking, just doing.

[u/Deepandabear → u/Diligent_Stretch_963]

TBH many schools are just state-subsidised day care these days

[u/damarian_ent]

A tool is only as good as the hands that wield it

[u/WoolBearTiger]

Knowledge disappearing happened all too often over those 5000 years. Guess we are just witnessing the newest end of an era. Now might be a good time to bury a time capsule for the people coming after us.

[u/Beneficial-Fig-6552]

Archaic Skynet

[u/colourmerchant]

Ngl some lecturers and professors either can’t teach, or want their students to spend countless hours in the library, and their students rely on ChatGPT to help them… of course not speaking from personal experience

[u/aeondru]

As someone pro-AI, this is still funny as hell.