On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:53 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
> There seems to be individual differences in how people have responded to > the longer stretches of the pandemic. Some people lost benefits from the > “open” system. They lost access to their friends or lost their cadence. > Other people didn’t really notice so much or even liked having the > convenience of not having to run around so much. If the Chinese did lock > up Searle in a room, he would have no one to play footsie with, and maybe > he would become depressed that he had no one to “charm”. But others might > not even bother to shake the door handle, and just enjoy the peace and > quiet with their conniving managers at arm’s length > <https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/work-from-home-benefits/619597/> > . > I see what your point about a room for "social" isolation. My thought experiment was using closed in the physics sense. ie, exchange of energy but no exchange of matter with the surroundings. In a closed physical system, Searle and remote workers are dead but the robot "lives".
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