Episode 61: The Library With No Readers | K.G.I. Podcast

The algorithm that picks your next video isn't smarter than you. It's dumber. But it doesn't have to be smart — it only has to make you predictable. So it doesn't appease your taste. It changes your taste to match what it wants to show you. And the part of you that goes along with it isn't the mind. It's the animal, trading your attention for a dopamine hit.Here's what I'm actually afraid of — not that AI turns evil, but that we hand over our intelligence ourselves, out of laziness, and lose the self in the process. Because without a self, there's no one left to appreciate the abundance, no one to make a proper sacrifice, no one to read the books. Imagine a library with millions of books and not a single reader — because no one can read anymore. Every real book is the preserved self of its author, offered to another self across time. When I read Dostoevsky, I understand myself through his understanding of himself. That's what we lose. Not to a Terminator. To our own surrender.Essays between episodes → kirillkhrestinin.substack.comMy book Dear AI https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRC5QBH5My book Mary Falcon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2TKSQN5My book Mythos https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK