E. Why you must reject anything that comes easy, and avoid reductionism like a plague?
Let me take the example of writing this article. This is a lengthy article with correlations from Ethology, Physics, Mathematics, and real life. There is thinking, and there is narration. There is a story that flows through the article from the top to the end. There is an effort to teach you. There is an effort to make things easy for you to understand. There is imagination, creativity, productivity, energy, emotions, and attachment with the article, and there is an immense amount of passion that is going behind writing this article so that this gives some meaning and helps you in some ways.
However, this article could be given to a silly ChatGPT and that would have created content in no time. I could save energy, effort, thinking, feeling, and would have saved time that I could utilize elsewhere. However, such content would please my lazy brain and it would feel smart for doing something without any effort. You are reading this article for over two minutes now. On average, a user spends only 30 seconds on a top site. So you are already spending 7x more time on this article than an average internet user spends reading a piece. The reason you are reading this for so long is that you are engrossed, and loving the narration, feeling emotions. However, had this been ChatGPT-generated content, you would have come and left the site.
By investing more effort, energy, and emotions, I, the author, and you the reader are creating stronger mutual human bonds like trust, faith, love, and happiness.
Now imagine millions of content are getting created every second across the internet through AI, and millions of users are glancing at them. However, neither ChatGPT content generators are getting anything in return(other than some low-quality readers and hopefully some leads), nor the readers are becoming loyal to such sites and content and feeling bored as all content appears superficial.
Any reductionism is done through tools and machines. The example of reducing Pi to 22/7 is an approximation tool. Reducing learning through degrees is done by the education machinery of schools, colleges, and universities. Reduction of knowledge into content is done through LLM(Large Language Model) machines like ChatGPT. Finding who is intelligent and who is not through marks requires a statistical model. (A large percentage of the good students score above 80% so, 80% is the interview cutoff).