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Life > Tech: Are we living in an age of statistical mediocrity?
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Are we living in an age of statistical mediocrity?
Almost every piece of text you can consume online is now having this syntactically-shiny, perfectly-spelled package with a rather shallow and unoriginal semantic core. You probably wanted to read something about a place or a culture you've never encountered, and it reads like something you've read hundreds of times before. You probably watched a YT video about a hobby you practise, and it follows a very formulaic presentation and vocabulary. Averaged conventional experiences and conventional wisdom, regurgitated in a non-offensive, plausible-looking package. Where's the subjective lived human experience, the personal judgement, the slightly odd and difficult sentence structure, the touch of originality?<br>It's not only about LLM-generated content. Even interactions with real people online produce a very narrow and predictable set of reactions. The ideas and concepts we operate with are shockingly limited. You probably don't like a product for some valid particular reasons, and you get the prefabricated "it's not about you, it's what the market dictates". You probably have a personal issue in a very particular personal situation, but you get prefabricated advice that it's a "you issue".<br>How can one stay sharp in such an environment? Detach from the online world and read old-fashioned books from the pre-LLM era. Have dinner conversations with honest, morally-integral, intellectually deeper people from diverse backgrounds. Do not trade your inner self for a "popular profile" in the property of the techno-feudal landlords.
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