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That's a sobering thought right there: that one people's mythos, the foundations of their culture, could trace back to... a bunch of randos in the early printing era, who figured out they can get rich quick by flooding the world with slop.

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I wouldn’t expect any mythos to be perfect, because they have often been constructed quickly and hastily due to external pressures for national unity. Various countries that saw a surge for independence during the 19th century age of nationalism, often based their mythos on Romantic-era poetry that sometimes has aged well (e.g. the Kalevala), and sometimes has aged quite badly (a few Eastern European countries).

change "printing era" to "ai era" and you might be onto something!

Not really. "AI era" is adding a flood of new crap to the world already drowned in slop. The last couple decades marked the time where everyone could publish books, videos and music, and a lot of people did, creating more content every day than any human could consume in a lifetime. And that's discounting the orders of magnitude more useless garbage that advertising industry has been mass-producing for like a century now.

Adding AI to the mix makes zero actual difference at this point.

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