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bawanatoday at 1:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Before the printing press, information was transmitted by word of mouth, skills were learned by joining guilds, and the largely illiterate public lived and learned from songs. As AI takes over and information becomes adulterated, people will enter their own bubbles. Ultimately, the only way to escape enslavement by AI will be to return to the world before the printing press.


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tetris11today at 2:02 PM

Given the nose-diving literacy rate history might begin to repeat itself