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I think you nailed it. Before LLMs showed up on the scene, we had already broken society.

(Thanks, Internet!)

Even before that 24 hour cable TV, talk radio, and TV deregulation were chipping away at society as quickly as they could manage. The internet took the intensity to 10.

I agree with the root cause generally, but balk at the 'if we had' phrasing. We still can have these things, it just takes our own time and energy to get out and be with people face-to-face. Nothing about that is impossible. It is not as easy as sitting behind a keyboard though.

Yeah capitalism.

If the AI transofmration takes too long, we might never overthrow capitalism