With the LLM hysteria seemingly without an end in sight, what is sorrowfully missing from the modern world is a push toward mastery.
This is not a new phenomenon. The vast majority of people have been trying to “hack” life away by any means necessary for some time now. Limitless tips and tricks to make things quickly with less effort - abounding “how-to guides” on shutting one’s brain off. Optimization of life to the point of not even living any more - I have known many people to outsource everything but the breathing they do, to the point that their humanity is in question.
We have College students “writing” essays with chatGPT while forgetting gradeschool grammar rules as their brains atrophy, programmers forgetting their craft to simply ship bugs faster and enshittify the greatest platform of information transfer humanity has ever created.
We seem to be celebrating the bugman - celebrating the death of thought.
Nobody is trying to just put their head down and master something.
Everyone is telling me “not to learn how to code”, everyone is telling me it is easier to buy my bread from the store, everyone is telling me to “outsource” the stuff I don’t like doing.
I do the opposite.
Mastery starts with the day to day things that you refuse to avoid. In doing them, you come to realize that in the dishes that need washing or the snow that is needing to be shovelled, or the laundry that needs folding - God can be found.
There is the “jack of all trades master of none” nonsense that gets purported as if it were true. What about the renaissance man? What of the person that actually builds things and has to master the disciplines that allow said building?
Aquinas did not “just know theology”, Da Vinci did not “just paint”, Franklin did not “just fly kites in thunderstorms.”
I don’t want to live in a world where everything is outsourced, handed to the lowest bidder while I have no idea about the systems that I use, the food that I eat, the religion I participate in, the house I live in.
So, I am going all in.
I would suggest you do the same, lest you be left behind by the “AI” world that there are no experts in, but uncountable loud, unwise voices trying to sell you the solution to the problem we built for ourselves, the cage we locked from the inside.
As always, God bless, and until next time.
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