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Nice commentary on deceptively idiotic AIs.

To clarify my point, the wordcel-shapelord distinction is similar to Dril's Email-Farm distinction, jobs that require disproportionate rhetorical skills against jobs that require deep thought. Service jobs (tertiary sector) against manufacturing (secondary sector) and research (quaternary sector).

The quaternary sector is what wordcel anprims found to be the enemy, which this "green" movement (including XR) now manifests as Quangos (quinary sector), and this explains why most activists are neurotic and hyper-social.

The battle between priests and warriors, between merchants and craftsmen, are now migrated into the realms of technocrats against activists. For every step to crush the wordcel (firepower, industry, analytics), there will be always a counter-move (dogma, advertisement, propaganda).

To be easily displaced by AI must also imply that ones psyche is being leads by words rather than action, and that the latter is near impossible in a biological rather than an environmental level. There is treatment but no cure, lest one becomes an "AI activist" to give oneself meaning, or accept that every man has their own limits in success.

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