Fuck AI

We are in a period of magical thinking. Absent of learning process, people have shifted towards the idea of innate skill. It's a false idea.

It happened before LLMs. Take the tech industry's enamoration with unicorns. At it's peak during the 2010s, they were all searching for the magical nerd who could mash away at a keyboard. Then miraculously produce a billion dollar magic box that spews rainbows and pixie dust.

That person does not exist. That person is the work of millions of people of varying skill type and level doing their day job. But the corporate driven world needed its wunderkind.

LLMs have made this idea believable for anyone. What if you had a magic box that could make you perform like a unicorn yourself. What if others had a magical box that could make the average or below-average person perform like a unicorn that you think you are.

I suspect people had become demoralized by all this magical unicorn stuff. Who really is that smart. Nobody. The world is average by definition. Can we all drop the charade? Nobody is that special.

The corporate rat race has caused credential inflation, as generations of people today stepped over each other to put up a facade of being the most outstanding employee you'll ever hire. The reality is most of us are average pretending to be above the standard deviation. What a stupid thing.

I suspect this has caused silent collapse of morale that nobody wants to talk about. Doing so would be to concede defeat, and make yourself vulnerable in a bizarro world that revolves around capitalist sharks smelling blood in the water. I think people are tired of the autodidact slog that corporations have offset to your personal time. People got tired of having to learn to be a supergenius unicorn in order to put food on the table.