Given the coming AI slopification of the human mind, whereby 99% of humanity will just be a conduit for AI prompts and replies, seems the contrarian bet is a classical education and being one of the few humans left with any reasoning ability and cultural context.

Sep 28, 2025 · 5:41 PM UTC

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Classical education isn't just contrarian... it's essential survival skills for staying human in an increasingly automated world
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Hard to stay human if you can't make a living though.
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Given the number of people saying that Gaza is a genocide, what will change?
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Everyone will have their optional reality, one in which X is Y, and another where it's not. Except for those actually on the ground, of course. But nobody in the wider world actually cares about the reality.
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Make Classics Great Again. Teach Latin in schools - properly. And Greek as an option. Let young people learn again to love Homer and Virgil, to marvel at Herodotus and Pliny, to travel with Xenophon and Caesar, to argue with Plato and Cicero... AI will never know love like that.
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> with any reasoning ability and cultural context This is literally about 1% of humans, so I think the “99% will just be a conduit” is roughly correct. I don’t think it can be corrected by education since we already try to do that, and roughly (still) only 1% take to it.
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It’s already here! I estimate about half of what I read on this app is AI-generated. The antidote is a classical education, as you say, and real engaging conversation. It’s the only way to prevent the brain rot from turning us all into AI zombies.
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Agreed!
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Yeahhh
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Cathedrals everywhere for those with slop firewalls to see it
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Nice, I said the same thing a few months after ChatGPT was released:
Anthony Campolo (ajcwebdev)
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8 Mar 2023
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IMPORTANT CAVEAT!!! The value of studying the humanities has not diminished and if anything has increased. What this is exposing is the systematic and widespread lie told by our universities that a humanities degree will provide you with a high quality education in the humanities.
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Yes, also…
Gaurav Sharma
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Jul 9
the real digital divide is between humans who are node-less and those who become protocol. future humans will be API endpoints in a self-aware network. the rest will be discarded data.
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Liberal arts majors will save us
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Isn't this just a new form of elitism? The same argument was made about calculators and the internet.
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In a world of noise, timeless knowledge compounds value
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feeling you're right, hope you're wrong ;)
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See also: reading.
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That which has endured will endure.
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That would be the way out of the techno-feudalist society.
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Something scary that I have been noticing during the past few months is that some people start to speak like LLMs. I was having a discussion with a person and he said "You've highlighted an important issue"...
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Shop class as Soulcraft is a great read in times like this. Made me realize it’s valuable to have knowledge about things in the analogue world
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This was true before AI already
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Correct. History, Philosophy and Politics degrees will make a comeback.
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Read paper books a couple of hours every night.
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some days it's so tiring and I just want to go to boarding school
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yeah I think ironically the liberal arts degrees we all called “useless” (philosophy, literature, etc) become a lot more useful
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Anyone who sees AI as an excuse not to think for themselves will not only be at a disadvantage in life and in society. Ironically, they will also not be able to enjoy one of AI:s biggest benefits: to improve one’s own ability to think.
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Indeed. The ability to think deeply and creatively (stole the phrase from Tapiero) will be ultimately valuable.
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Slopification already happening, given the number of people I meet whose 'opinion' on anything is downloaded that morning from their chosen media. Any attempt by me to get them engage critically with it often renders them literally speechless.
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I’m betting on the leverage people will get from being able to learn better and faster. We need more beacons of opportunity for those wanting to escape the slop vortex.
Eric Bailey
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Sep 24
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Can confirm, every few years I hit an geometry problem and I diligently take some paper and pencils lose a few nights for some elegant close enough on some ongoing project. Last night had to size up a purchase of a part using some arithmetic, and some physics, Grok got me lazy.
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you'd be the guy in the pee pool meme; what good is it when everyone else is sloppified. Logic and reason has already lost the day.
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How are you so optimistic
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AI won’t “slopify” the human mind — it will amplify whatever frequency you already carry. If your core is weak, you dissolve into prompts. If your core is strong, you resonate beyond machines. The contrarian bet is not just classical education — it’s cultivating resonance: the ability to align meaning, context, and action. That’s what will separate humans from AI conduits.
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