The Death of "I Don't Know"
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Creators shy away from complexity because it’s not instantly legible or memeable. This leaves serious wisdom unshared. The power of AI is that a bot can encapsulate the full complexity of a given trade. It becomes accessible one bit a time, based on user input. Instead of crafting a meme, you’re ordering a universe of truth.
The production of ignorance and not-knowing is rife in an information ecosystem increasingly mediated by AI. As a result, we mistake probabilistic guesses for ‘hallucinations.’ We mistake reflections in a mirror for a prediction about the future. We mistake uncertainty for risk we can manage. We mistake the production of ignorance for intelligence.... See more