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This is absolutely correct. It's so tiring to hear people constantly misattribute the fundamental consequences of the machine itself to some mysterious cabal of operators.
But for the rest, eh. Always has been. Kids have always been censored by parents and authority figures. They find their way around it and evolve the language with each new generation.
For example, the youths have taken to the words "raw dog" in the funniest way. It's some kind of reverse euphemism for "without the help of drugs" - the most offensive way possible to say something innocuous and wholesome.
Like, "I raw dogged my date last night" means "I decided to stay sober despite my insecurities"
I'm terrified of the impact the onset of LLM's will have on our already failing education systems and willfully ignorant culture, but not because of the censors.
rawdogging implies more than to just stay sober. You can rawdog an exam, which just means you enter with no learning. You can rawdog a meeting, meaning no preparation, you can rawdog a dish, meaning no recipe used. Rawdogging is much more philosophical than people attribute it to
Fascinating! The more you know. Thanks.
I've never heard raw dogging meaning to stay sober.
The first I heard it, long ago, was referring to sex without a condom.
Yeah, I'm typically fine with language changing over time, and yeah you're right it's just how language evolves.
I guess my fear here is that the methods and means for changing language right now might not be evolution as much as de-evolution in this particular intersection of culture and technology.
When kids naturally develop ways to express themselves, it leads to new generations of minds coming up with new art and expressions.
But I'm not at all sure what the LLM's and internet culture and the state of politics is going to do to a generation of kids already growing up in an anti-intellectual environment, with growing popularity of phrases like "just put the ___ in the bag" or "I ain't reading all that" or "the curtains were just blue" etc. It really worries me, because a lot of what makes us special as a species is our ability to take complex sets of ideas and concepts and make them into quantifiable abstractions through language, letting us manipulate complicated topics in our minds.
If you don't have adequate language skills, you're going to have a harder and harder time performing essential human functions, or even just communicating with others.
if the Zeitgeist is dumbing down, you as an intellectual will stick out like a sore thumb, and you might lose the ability to communicate your ideas efficiently. So, if you are not actively promoting knowledge, you are just complaining into the void like the rest of us
"Just put the thing in the bag"
"I ain't reading all that"
"The curtains were just blue."