I’m pretty sure old-school reading is just over. When people have a long article or even a book to read they’re just going to ask ChatGPT to bullet point it for them anyways. I already see this happening. The problem is that reading had important neurological and psychological effects that were upstream from democratic society and politics in general. We are going back to premodern oral culture.

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Lets hope for the best, because it looks like we are entering an era where IQ is not getting better but stagnating or even getting worse. If we remove reading, for real, humans are going to enter into a new dimension of shortcuts and manipulation never seen before. We need critical thinking, and if we only use LLMs to summarize texts, there's not going to be too many differences between them. That's a nightmare.