Their name of the business means dissolving the corpus callosum On Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 1:39 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I'm retired from technological development and science, I spend a lot > of my time interpreting and explaining science to interested laymen. With > the AI revolution I foresee a bigger role for this. Human scientists will > be those who study what AI's have done and then explain it to the rest of > us; instead of finding out what Nature has done and explaining it. > > Brent > > > On 10/19/2024 6:24 AM, John Clark wrote: > > 5. Work and meaning > > Even if everything in the preceding four sections goes well at least one > important question still remains. *With AI’s doing everything, how will > humans have meaning?* For that matter, how will they survive > economically?” I think it is very likely a mistake to believe that tasks > you undertake are meaningless simply because an AI could do them better. > Most people are not the best in the world at anything, and I spend plenty > of time playing video games, swimming, walking around outside, and talking > to friends, all of which generates zero economic value. I might spend a day > trying to get better at a video game, or faster at biking up a mountain, > and it doesn’t really matter to me that someone somewhere is much better at > those things. > > The fact is that civilization has successfully navigated major economic > shifts in the past: from hunter-gathering to farming, farming to feudalism, > and feudalism to industrialism. I suspect that some new and stranger > thing will be needed, and that it’s something no one today has done a good > job of envisioning. *It could be as simple as a large universal basic > income for everyone.* > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/de7763c9-5546-435a-82d7-ce8f8f67939a%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/de7763c9-5546-435a-82d7-ce8f8f67939a%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAN3PQpGu8srvq%2BdHdjdLWM%3DEmi%3Dmvr0hOKtaQDRcRAhNxdgUHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
