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Beautifully said.
And as long as one does not have tenure, the market will be the place to shop.
The luxury of community will be an option only for those who don't have to worry (too much) about their number of publications anymore.
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I also think there will be a bifurcation between marketplace and community. There already was, but I think it'll get more stark.
In the marketplace, everything we engage with is instrumental and transactional. It doesn't matter how or why something happens, I just need it to happen, and we make an exchange. AI will dominate the marketplace. For math/science, AI will dominate instrumental results, i.e. results where we don't really care to understand, we just need an output.
Then there will be community, where questions of values, and the how and the why of things still matters. Here, AI use will be policed and shunned. In math/science, the community will seek understanding rather than straight up true/false statements.
I believe everyone will have one foot in a marketplace and one foot in a community.
But I also believe that some people who don't have a grounding in community will feel increasingly isolated and dehumanized. And people who don't have a grounding in the marketplace will struggle to support themselves, needing to rely on their community.
Someone with solid grounding in either marketplace or community becomes the homeless and vagrants.