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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9397078" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>I'd rather have bespoke AI generated nonsense than the observably nonsensical narratives that most people believe are ironclad facts, so it doesn't seem all that scary to me. Most people have no idea how to (and even less interest) determine if facts "everyone knows" are falsifiable, or even thoroughly falsified already, and react badly to even the suggestion that their cherished narratives have no factual basis whatsoever. One kinda close to home; I see gamers all the time talk about how cool Joseph Campbell is, but his models are stupid beyond all reason and even a quick scan will show that they've been academically out of favor for decades. The only people who still quote Joseph Campbell with a straight face are gamers and other nerd pop culture folks name-dropping him to try and reflect academic-sounding authority. Given how thoroughly out of favor his models are academically, it's a bit ironic how uninformed they actually appear to anyone who is even marginally conversant with the state of comparative mythology as an academic discipline.</p></blockquote><p></p>