As you will see by things like my Angelic Foundations essay, I do appreciate the virtues of working with machines.
However, at the moment, there are also advantages to a man-machine symbiosis—namely robotics is still far behind the evolved molecular nanotechnology in animals in many respects—and computers still lag far behind brains in many critical areas. A man-machine symbiosis will thus beat machines in many areas, until after machines reach the level of a typical human in most work-related physical and mental feats. Machine-only solutions will just lose. So: we will be working with organisations for a while yet—during a pretty important period in history.
I just think it’s a related but different field. Actually, solving these problems is something I want to apply some AI to (more accurate mapping of human behavior allowing massive batch testing of different forms of organization given outside pressures—discover possible failure modes and approaches to deal with them), but that’s a different conversation.
As you will see by things like my Angelic Foundations essay, I do appreciate the virtues of working with machines.
However, at the moment, there are also advantages to a man-machine symbiosis—namely robotics is still far behind the evolved molecular nanotechnology in animals in many respects—and computers still lag far behind brains in many critical areas. A man-machine symbiosis will thus beat machines in many areas, until after machines reach the level of a typical human in most work-related physical and mental feats. Machine-only solutions will just lose. So: we will be working with organisations for a while yet—during a pretty important period in history.
I just think it’s a related but different field. Actually, solving these problems is something I want to apply some AI to (more accurate mapping of human behavior allowing massive batch testing of different forms of organization given outside pressures—discover possible failure modes and approaches to deal with them), but that’s a different conversation.