LLM driven meta-commentaries will kill many potential autodidacts. The authentic autodidact will become an endangered species, cognitive atrophy setting in specifically because attention itself is outsoruced to agentic AI. There are and will be workarounds, to leverage LLM agentic labour without sucumbing to cognitive atrophy. Cog war by intel agencies who are a critical part of the architecture of data-technofeudalism is possible as our faculties atrophy. Atrophy always occurs in the setting of accepting custodianship over sovereignty.
Appreciate the Zaytuna College movement a lot in the Anglosphere, but it ultimately set the limit of Muslim intellectual engagement towards Neo-Luddite First Things-style Catholicism - Islam has so much more potential than this.
At the time this was a much welcome contrast to mainsteam corporatized Islamoleftism and simpleton chickenshop Salafism. Since then the landscape has clearly evolved but Zaytuna and largely SHY set the Neo-Luddite megatrend and agenda that even his rivals ended up emulating.
SHY's influence in this aspect has become ubiquitous to the point that a lot of anti-modernity poasting within the Anglosphere is just his legacy but without name - true megatrend dominance.
However now comes the point to contest and overthrow this megatrend - SAIF will dictate the agenda change by forcing many to re-evaluate their Neo-Luddite first principles - this will inspire a range of emotions - it will compel reaction.
SAIF continues to attack the most sacrosanct pillars of Anglo-Islam intellectualism which has now seeped into Dawah Inc too - comfortable anti-modernism, holier than thou Neo-Ludditism and fanciful eschatologies that rationalise defeat.
GAE looks after incumbent Big Tech AI (OpenAI, Palantir, Anthropic etc) due to oligarchic interests rather than trying to outcompete Chinese open source - the Chinese know this so will accelerate
Regulatory capture is now hardwired into the soul of American hyperfinancialism. With AI - nationalist forms of doomerism will infect policy. "Chinese AI will takeover" - but lies because they accelerate open source and wreck moats whilst GAE try to do anything to pump Wall St
Incentives utterly wrecked. Trump coalition is made up of Crypto and AI charlatans from Suvreillance Valley - but in order to compete you need to gut OpenAI, Anthropic and slaughter the holy cow of NVIDIA
Muslim contribution to FOSS in a period where there is no anchor state and the need is some degree of independence from GAE and CCP (unavoidable to ignore entirely though) splinternts is the fix here.
Building on already excellent protocols the key - Notesnook an example of Muslim excellence in encrypted notetaking that has become universalist. It is a good product because it is excellent not because it is "Islamic", banking on affinity scamming
SAIF has been spreading the need for FOSS development not just as a technical challenge but one of cultural formation and attitudes. We must reconfigure the everyday cultural relationship Muslims have with Big Tech and in doing so we will find like minded allies
Data is spice - taking this one step further - data and money are increasingly becoming one and the same thing. Important to engage culturally and technically with BTC but also XMR to a lesser extent and avoid the rest of GAE crypto
The previous GAE policy of allowing reasonable autonomy to the central provinces (Canada et al) is no longer felt to be in the interest of American primacy - many of the provinces if allowed to exercise sovereignty in a multipolar world would no longer automatically choose the US
In a multipolar world where choosing the US is no longer the default option - protectionism is a way of bolting the doors, locking in allies against their will and holding them hostage.
The pain this will cause in the provinces will of course incite the flames of rebellion and will force many to ask "What is the point of being a GAE vassal anymore?" - when that gains momentum there will be new populisms potentially - GAExit on the cards?
Unlike the EU for all its faults there is no constitutional or political identity here that is being shaped by Trumpism outside of accelerating sovcorp/megacartel raiding of state assets
Populism with oligarchic/plutocratic characteristics by cynically deploying protectionism to keep the USD based Wall Street ponzi scheme going, will unsurprisingly not save the West - it accelerates its death
As written recently in the excellent paper by Hornby, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics After ChatGPT" we are at the start of a process where the dialogical interactions between the reader, text and author will become radically altered
Hornby discusses how LLM models when deployed in chatbots or even agents can be thought of as large meta-texts rather than mega-texts per se. The future of literary engagement in an agentic world will be meta-textual - summaries often distilled into more concise summaries
The reader will now have the scope of their literary engagement shaped by various meta-texts offered by competing models - there will be Deepseek meta-texts about Nietzsche and Anthroopic, OpenAI and Alibaba ones.
Recent research of deploying LLMs in pedagogical settings have shown remarkable results particularly a small scale study done in Nigeria in an underprivileged setting. Meta-textual summaries seems to distill understanding?
