now a bunch of robots can do it. as someone who has a lot of their identity and their actual life built around “is good at math,” it’s a gut punch. it’s a kind of dying. [...] multiply that grief out by *every* mathematician, by every coder, maybe every knowledge worker, every artist… over the next few years… it’s a slightly bigger story
Have there been any rationalist writings on this topic? This cluster of social dynamics, this cluster of emotions? Dealing with human obsolescence, the end of human ability to contribute, probably the end of humans being able to teach each other things, probably the end of humans thinking of each other as “cool”? I’ve read Amputation of Destiny. Any others?
Have there been any rationalist writings on this topic? This cluster of social dynamics, this cluster of emotions? Dealing with human obsolescence, the end of human ability to contribute, probably the end of humans being able to teach each other things, probably the end of humans thinking of each other as “cool”? I’ve read Amputation of Destiny. Any others?