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  • Koen Hufkens, PhDkoen_hufkens@mastodon.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 11:42 AM

    We are living through what I would call a great unlearning, and therefore the death of expertise. @pluralistic summarizes this political and economic dimension in another scorcher.

    We are not training juniors, we are substituting them with AI. Students in school will be cognitively impaired through consistent AI use, eroding their expertise and reducing their lived experiences to prompts. We are deflating our capacity to make sense of theory-free model output.

    pluralistic.net/2026/10/06/non

    #AI

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  • The Casual Criticthecasualcritic@writing.exchange
    Oct 14, 2026, 12:14 PM

    @koen_hufkens @pluralistic
    I keep coming back to Frank Herbert's Dune on this, and wonder if I'll live long enough to experience our very own Butlerian Jihad.

    "What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger."
    - From God-Emperor of Dune

    (Shameless self-promotion, but I wrote a bit on this theme playing Universal Paperclips write.as/the-casual-critic/uni )

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  • MsMeropeMsMerope@sfba.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 1:13 AM

    @koen_hufkens @pluralistic

    maybe we'll end up with a "Simplification" a la A Canticle for Leibowitz

    "After 20th-century civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge", there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification", anyone accused of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs, who proudly took on the name of "Simpletons". Illiteracy became almost universal, and books were destroyed en masse."

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