The Dead End Track of Individual Freedom

The Dead End Track of Individual Freedom

The tough truth is: AI is not just guessing the future; it is limiting it. This isn't about simple targeted advertising; it's about something I would call Care Taker Systems.

No Alternatives

Human thought grew from mistakes and facing the unexpected. AI aims for perfection.

• If a streaming program decides this is what you like, it hides everything else.
• The Truth: The issue isn't that other things disappear, but that they stop being available to you. You may think you're choosing between a small number of things, not knowing the program cut out many others that might have changed you. You're stuck on a path that gets narrower every day.

The End of Freedom

Free will relies on the chance to act in ways that can't be guessed. If a program can guess what you'll do next with great accuracy, is your choice still free?

• The Reality: Programs that predict risk don't look at what you do, but at what data says you will do.
• This makes a cycle: If the program thinks you are a risk, it will stop you from having chances. Without those chances, you will end up just where the program guessed you would. What it guesses comes true.

Controlling What You Want (Without You Knowing)

AI doen't force you:

• By small changes to what you see and use, AI can make you decide things while you believe it was your own idea.
• The meaning is: We are moving from a world of trying to get people to do things to a world of changing how they act. You aren't choosing; you are responding to what works on your mind.

Why isn't this talked about?

Because to say it's true admits that the idea of the person is going away. Businesses don't want you to know this because they make money from knowing what will happen. A person that can't be guessed is not helpful; a person in a program is a sure thing. We are creating a comfortable trap. AI gives you what you want, so you won't want anything else. If people don't want other things, they never change.

An Irreversible Generational Cognitive Fracture

Here's the truth about what's happening to people without the ability to think for themselves:

1. Loss of Problem Solving

Thinking comes from trouble. The mind learns to think when it faces a problem and must find a way to solve it.

• What's happening: AI gets rid of trouble. It gives the answer but not the steps to get there.
• The Result: If you don't work on problems, your mind doesn't grow. Young people might be great at using answers but bad at asking questions and thinking.

2. Giving Up Good Judgment

Thinking requires looking at information, dealing with problems, and creating something new.

• People use AI as a source. If the program says something, they believe it because it is easy to understand and seems correct.
• If someone hasn't learned to think, they don't question what they are shown. They take the ready made answer. This isn't learning; it’s being trained.

3. Bad Memory and Focus

Thinking needs holding many ideas in the mind at once.

• AI breaks things up. It gives small bits of info and reduces the need to think about something at length.
• Without thinking skills, one can't see big mistakes. If one step is wrong, but the AI shows you directly to the answer with a nice graph, those without thinking skills won't see the mistake.

The truth: The real problem won't be money, but thinking. There will be a ruling group that can think well and knows how to work the machine and a group that follows what the programs say because they can't think of anything else.

General Stupidity

People are giving up their way of thinking. If you take away the devices from people, they can't decide what to do. They don't know how to find their way, how to talk to people without help, and can't tell the difference between things that happen together and things that cause each other.

1. AI as a Support

If someone with a broken leg uses support, that’s helpful. If a healthy person uses support all the time because they are lazy, their muscles will weaken, and they will never walk on their own. AI is doing this to thinking: giving support to those who haven't learned to stand on their own. This makes people who seem smart because they use tools, but are not when they can't use tech.

2. Copy and Paste

Thinking takes work and time. AI gives a faster way. Now, people don't think, but mix ideas from others or the machine. This makes people who repeat ideas they haven't thought about. It is shallow thinking: no depth, no feeling, no thought. Just a repeat of what the program says.

3. Loss of Reality

People who think well know that reality has rules and results. Those in AI start to think reality can be changed with a click. When they face the real world, they fail.

A Strategy for Survival

If programs are controlling thought, the way to fight back is to go back to what is real and not controlled.

• The difference between the real world and code: An animal needs watching, thinking, and changing. If you mistreat an animal, the result is clear. This rebuilds the way of thinking that AI destroys: that between what you do and what happens, there is a result.
• Getting back thinking: In the city, everything is given to you. In the country, you must learn why something is unhealthy or how to repair something. You must work with your hands and mind. This is a way to train thinking: solving hard problems with few things.
• Getting away from being controlled: Away from screens, you can be free from the things that make you want things. Only in peace can you know which thoughts are your own and which are from a statistical model.

Few will be free from tech. Most people are now used to digital comforts. It is a problem: AI, which was meant to free people, may trap minds. This is a kind of thing: Just as people in the past saved culture while the world failed, those who choose the land and real thinking save humans while an empty humanity walks around them.


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