The problem is, there is inherent human need not to think. Some need it more, some need it less.

If tonight some magical device removes religion from all of history, we will simply find out whet other idea will those people latch unto. Would it be nationalism? Would it be cult of personality? Perhaps trusting only single media group, or discarding any research paper not done by "racially pure" group? Would they claim "how can we trust foreigners? if they do not follow our leader, they cannot be moral, right?"

Yes and no. it depends.

Perhaps I'm wasting my time... but whatever.

If we count non-human traffic then automation/bots were always dominant. Servers check each other's availability all the time. Scrapper bots existed way before dead internet theory and many services online were just a bot polling some servers repeatedly just to show you collected and processed data. Nothing new.

If we count only bots that pretend to be human then this is more of a modern issue. And it's a source of sudden growth of interest in invigilation among political elites. After all most of internet-based economy is built on assumption that sites can show advertisements to humans. And often are paid per showing. If those views turned out to be just bots, nobody would want to pay for them. That would pretty much be another financial bubble to pop around the internet, maybe even bigger than AI-bubble itself. Of course any legislated methods of verifying if someone is human will be cracked within days and bots will be certified as humans faster than humans themselves. This is what we learned from all anti-piracy tech spending and there is no reason to hope that human-verification will be any better.

In my personal opinion internet was never human-driven. It was always humans surfing on waves of bots working in unison to keep the thing working. It's the bots that pretend to be humans who are the problem both for people and for companies. And companies will rather push real humans out of internet than reign the bots in.

Imagine finding a log with something like "we couldn't stop shareholders, our planet is doomed. We will start with a new colony on the planet closer to sun, perhaps this time we will not destroy our home"

It used to be "I asked my dad"

For that the cow must start to move.

Sustainability and Climate Conference? Sounds bizzare, why would anyone write for that.

"cattle" is neither capable of starting a revolution, not is it capable of sticking with it for more than half a year.

Tested and true in most first world countries

I will quote you when someone claims that asking multiple LLMs is not the solution.

I'm sifting through the results given to me by automat, not that different from AI.

I either ask uncle google's AI, or I ask sources he used for the same lie.

"I googled"

Anything that isn't on the first page of google might as well be lost to time.

Americans are toothless. Trump can do anything he wants and the only thing stopping him is his own failing health.

Attention requests. If I hat to juggle three or more things that require my attention I start having urges to pummel them to fine dust. Doesn't matter if they are my kids, co-workers, or even just machines.

Palestinian kids? I thought they are already dead.

In medieval times 16 was considered an adult. Can get married, sent to war, still listens to authority and doesn't know better. Just perfect.

And I guess pedo-states think of anything above 16 as adult

And they know their own citizens will do nothing. Because that's the norm there

I think he is a very sad man. He thought americans cared, he thought if americans knew they were getting fucked over they would do something. He thought american democracy is worth fighting for.

He was wrong.

current wave of AI isn't even new technology

We had predictive text. We had neural networks. We had both for more than few decades. Someone just decides "what if predictive text was built on neural network?" and it worked much better than old solution. In fact old solution worked pretty much like one-layer neural network.

TechBros literally took something we already had, made it more expensive and sold it to investors.

To be fair, I never hear about american kids until they get shot, so I dunno what kinda traditions they have.

Still is

Many people in history did this at what, 16? Not officially an adult in most countries.