AI Let's You Be Insta Mid at Everything and it's Incredible
Buckle up, Buttercup
AI let's you be insta mid at everything and it’s incredible.
We generally think of “mid things” as being “bad”.
But more often than not, the mid solution still solves your problems.
Mid lawnmowers still cut grass.
Mid advice from your buddy still helps you introspect.
Mid whiskey still gets you drunk.
Mid isn’t bad.
It’s just mid.
AI tools let you be mid today
Have you always wanted to study Physics but Wikipedia is too dry?
Ask AI about it.
Want to write more, but stuck on the blank page?
Ask AI about it.
Not sure how to take care of your lawn?
Ask AI about it.
Do you have no idea what you should learn??
Just ask the freaking robot.
It’s not magic and it shouldn’t replace your own thought
(AI tools are mindless token predictors after all)
but seriously this is the fastest way to get the consensus opinion in pretty much any industry and nothing else even comes close.
It’s an infovore’s dream!
Are you actually going to be good at that thing after chatting with the robot for 30 minutes?
hell no.
But are you hours, days, maybe even weeks ahead of where you would’ve been if you tried to figure it out by yourself even just a few years ago?
Probably.
Of course, if you’re an idiot without AI then you’re still probably an idiot with AI
But!
You’re an idiot with (maybe a lot) more specific, applicable knowledge than you had before you talked to the robot.
This at scale means that AI raises the floor for most industries much more than it explodes the ceiling for experts.
That’s genuinely incredible and I think many smart people are missing or ignoring this point.
Now…
The legal, ethical, and moral question of how AI models are trained are real and unanswered problems, but they’re literally only problems because the output of these models is so useful.
I believe the originators of said usefulness should get paid for providing it to the internet for the model companies to scrape and ingest, but also I think whatever happens here legally should not stop you from using and understanding these tools.
It is unfortunately incredibly unlikely that regulation will stop the ChatGPTs of the world from proliferating.
Just like cryptography in the 90’s, AI is too universally useful to remain suppressed for long (even if the Feds decide to do so).
Refusing to use AI tools out of principle means you’re ceding yet another digital nuke to the soulless assholes who want to algorithmically colonize your last remaining iota of attention.
Talk to the robots so you learn how to fix and fight them.
Test the power of Insta Mid yourself
Still unconvinced?
Try this tiny experiment to see how much real joy a teeny taste of AI can bring to your life.
Find a geek in your life
Spend 10 minutes asking ChatGPT to explain the most important and useful ideas related to their Thing (maybe ask for a few discussion questions too)
Strike up a conversation and say “Hey! I was looking at Thing and had a few questions about…”
As long as you have a basic grasp of human social interactions, you’ll be able to hold a good conversation for at least 10 minutes (or maybe two hours if your friend is a true blue geek)
And odds are you’ll literally make their day because, even if it feels like cheating, you literally did the prep work to express a genuine curiosity in their interests.
That’s a categorically good thing.
We’re dawning a weird new world right now and AI let’s you be insta mid at it.
I think that’s neat.
Plus, today is the worst these AI models are ever going to be… which is pretty wild to think about.
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