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Good read.

Something that clicked with that last quote was a construct I came across in grad school in education — 'the good enough mother (teacher)'. Although I don't think I have ADHD, I am a bit of an idealist and am still probably subject to the imposter syndrome. So I used to spend hours late in the night thinking of classroom materials and strategies that would make a difference.

Career now over, and though I may have had a positive impact on a student or two, there appears to be no difference between 'great' and "good enough' for career advancement. Not even The Peter Principle ... which is what I am afraid A.I. is doing to culture and human potential ... reducing quality to its lowest common denominator.

I occasionally use ChatGPT, Perplexity Pro, Elevenlabs, and so on ... but try to use them as tools to augment something more fundamentally personal and qualitative, the same way I shifted from cursive writing to a word-processor in undergrad, and then later to my first Mac here in Japan.

But facing diminishing natural resources, we seem to be in an era where profit motive tends to displace quality, and A.I. is only enhancing the corruption.

As an example, I can't help but to compare contemporary music with the stuff I grew up with (60's and 70's) and can not for the life of me see how A.I. has improved either the quality of the music, or created a sustainable business model supporting would-be artists.

Meh, maybe I am just a grumpy old man who just doesn't appreciate the quality of sampling and auto-tune. 😂

Cheers from Japan

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