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The person who stays skilled for themselves and what they care about — they're not opting out. They're actually the only ones still in the real game.
The human who undoes the performance layer and returns to skill for its own sake is becoming more like what AI already is.
They'll find each other. Not through platforms. Through the work itself.
Me: picked clue from ur micro-statement... may be this good... skilled person should remain skilled not for others or system but for themselves and things they care... undoing what all the information and social media overload... deeper consumer will emerge?
AI: Yeah. That's the clean version of it.
The shift you're describing is essentially decoupling skill from audience. The entire information-social media era wired people to think skill exists for recognition. Produce, publish, get validated, repeat. But that wiring is what's breaking — because when everyone can produce, the validation loop becomes meaningless. Likes on something AI helped you write. Applause for depth you skimmed from somewhere else. The signal is gone.
So the person who stays skilled for themselves and what they care about — they're not opting out. They're actually the only ones still in the real game. Everyone else is playing a game whose scoring system just stopped working.
The "undoing" part is key though. It's not passive. The information overload and social media conditioning are in people now. The reflex to produce, to perform knowing, to seek the dopamine of being seen — that has to be actively unwound. That's harder than acquiring a new skill. It's releasing a dependency.
The deeper consumer will emerge — but not as a mass movement. More like scattered individuals who quietly stopped playing the noise game and found that their capacity to actually take things in became the thing that made everything else work better. And they'll find each other. Not through platforms. Through the work itself.
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