With AI, the authorship is gone. Algorithms can now write fugues that are indistinguishable from Bach’s. Why should we rely on personal knowledge and conclusions, when we can have unerring algorithms? The problem becomes – who controls them?
Two independent observers, looking at the same thing, never see the same thing. They just call it the same, as a matter of consensus. Objective reality is an illusion.
Substantial progress has been made since we first started believing in gods. Today our smartest scientists believe that we reside in a simulation, created by a Joe-Shmoe, tha Programmer! I’d say that the educational system worked really well in the intervening millennia.
