Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened?
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Jake,
Wrong Enco, wrong.
If your point is lennin’s, “He who does not work shall not eat” then ya ain’t really saying anything.
The Judeo-Christian/protestant work ethic has an obvious nexus to humans working their asses off in a meaningless quotidian get just enough to get by existence so you can retire and die. Slaves were tricked by Christians into thinking that sic transit gloria mundi and that heaven would be their reward for an unspeakable toll. Calvinist tradition has people working their asses off to see if they’re chosen. The protestant work ethic looks askance at those who deviate from the normal work-a-day existence.
Look at our culture. It is a show me the money culture. No status without money. No value without money. The menial jobs that are supposed to satisfy the rank and file inure to the benefit of the owners and upper echelon.
The necessity of work existed long before humans came up with religions and ideologies. Everything that humans use from the simplest, most primitive stone tool to the most sophisticated space satellite requires rational thought and effort. In a word, work.
I know what of I speak about primitive tools because I’ve taken a class on flintknapping where we actually did it and made primitive tools.
In order to remedy that rumbling in the belly that humans had to learn to identify as hunger, a primitive human had to have an idea of the nature of the surrounding world, such as differences between sandstone, flint, slate, and obsidian.
Then that human had to have a thought of the tool shape necessary to obtain food and had to learn how to break the stones into that shape. Then that human had to exert the focused, repeated motions necessary to get the end result.
And because survival depended on it, there was no room for Bob Ross “happy mistakes.”. Humans had to get it right or die from exposure, thirst, hunger, or predation by four-legged or two-legged predators.
Moreover, when we learned flintknapping, we did it with advantages primitive humans didn’t have, such as nails, dowels, and knowledge of how much sunlight we had for work.
Also, we flintknapped with long sleeves, leather gloves and safety goggles to keep from getting cut, bruised, or blinded by mis-aimed hammer stones or sharp, flying slivers of rock. We had and have it soft and easy by comparison.
Yep, it is work taking up coordinates on this Big Blue Marble in space. We can and have made it much easier with past inventions and with AI, we can make it easier still, but there’s no avoiding work and that’s Nature’s doing, not a human conspiracy.
Pop-Up Video Factoid: When discussing man’s first manufacture of tools, Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man had Pink Floyd’s song “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” as a soundtrack piece for the first episode. (Fast forward to 29:55 to 33:21 to hear it and see a wonderful display of primitive tools in action. And remember: You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat.)
If he were alive today, Bronowski might have reconsidered the soundtrack and did a remake. He would have told Roger Waters: “I survived your ilk and talked about you here!”
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