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Humans are slow and petty creatures evolved to argue, collect stuff, hold tools and run around. We are not built to process raw information. Internet, as remarkable as it is - is mostly an echo chamber where people usually seek confirmation and reassurance rather than exploring frontiers of new modes of existing. Go on any forum and you will notice the same questions and ideas being expressed regularly regardless if there's a FAQ explaining everything. On less frequent intervals someone rediscovers that which countless others have rediscovered before them, but without knowing it seems like some mysterious and novel path of reason. This too has been said and written elsewhere so am mostly just singing a variation of an old tune in here. Same old myths are being slayed yet again and somehow never die.
Would it take away from the learning experience and the mystery if the moment little Timmy begins writing their critique - a seemingly omniscient GPT-8 would interject that "similar critiques were first written in ~300BCE and most famously expanded upon in 1948-1949 and in 2025 by the PhilosophersCollective by analyzing internet data from 2002-2024. Do you still wish to continue?". Strange as that may seem I think this will be the future. I've named this type of AI a "coordinatorAI", which would be a mix of a ChatBot, Search-engine and a scribe. I think we don't have that yet because Large Language Models are relatively recent and because finding information from a sea of data is very difficult and time consuming - hence the reason we have search-engine optimization and sorting algorithms. Even now we don't know how to do this type of setup, but I believe we're not too far off. If something like this came out tomorrow every third grader could be making an impact on history - even little Timmy.