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DoingIsLearning

> All our written interaction will have been polished and enhanced by one LLM or another into a uniform template.

Isn't that just a natural continuation of a global homogenization of human culture and experience?

If you visit anywhere in Europe, or Asia, or the Americas you now have virtually the same 'a la starbucks' coffee culture (even in countries with strong cafe cultures). Same lighting, same minimalist furniture, same music.

Couples now take the same style of wedding/newborn photos across the globe.

Music globally has become less, not more, diverse.[0]

A loss of writer's voice or style would be just another step in this global 'blandenization' of human experience/aesthetics.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop...

Just because the same capitalists are running the same ventures in countries outside of the Western nations does not mean their local cultures have become homogenized any more than Western cultures are actually defined by Starbucks and ubiquitous fast food.

> From a philosophical viewpoint, the danger inherent in the new reality of mankind seems to be that this unity, based on the technical means of communication and violence, destroys all national traditions and buries the authentic origins of all human existence. This destructive process can even be considered a necessary prerequisite for ultimate understanding between men of all cultures, civilizations, races, and nations. Its result would be a shallowness that would transform man, as we have known him in five thousand years of recorded history, beyond recognition. It would be more than mere superficiality; it would be as though the whole dimension of depth, without which human thought, even on the mere level of technical invention, could not exist, would simply disappear. This leveling down would be much more radical than the leveling to the lowest common denominator; it would ultimately arrive at a denominator of which we have hardly any notion today.

-- Hannah Arendt

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