AI commentator warns young people may lose motivation to deeply learn — and regret it
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-14
In an ongoing AI discussion, the author argues that one consequence of the current AI wave is that younger people may soon have no motivation to deeply study or understand anything, and will regret it when the dust settles. In the preceding tweet of the thread, the same author describes a familiar trajectory among AI thought leaders — from "I've seen the future, wake up" to "divine revelation has happened to me" to "full-time shill" — a pattern he says he has watched play out two dozen times, online and in real life.
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