Just today I read a post dedicated to the fact that most of the modern tourist routes imply that the tour guide in them, as the author put it, “the producer of interpassivity”.
In popular tourist locations, the tour guide usually tells you what you see, and then—what you feel about it. “With each room you are more and more admired”, “this act is respected”, “the light in this room attracts all your attention”. This is less common in academic museums. There the tour guide-researcher is absorbed in his own emotions on the subject. He can impose his vision, but it’s in the format of “I’m tearing up.” And the “you see X and feel Y” formula is a takeaway from tour guides on routes with a large number of people. Like the voiceover laughter in a TV series.
The author of the post argues that it’s not necessarily a bad thing: a tired factory worker or a father of a large family who has finally saved up for a vacation may not have the energy to actively perceive and feel things. Experiencing emotions is a job, and a person doesn’t have the energy to laugh, but they want to consume comedy.
The consumer doesn’t want to engage in philosophy. They want to consume the pyramid fact and the emotions associated with pyramids in the form of a ready-made product. And the market creates a product that consumes itself.
It’s clear that there are obvious disadvantages to this approach, and I won’t go into them, but the post concludes with an example of a perfect combination, where “a tired tour guide, like a bird, regurgitates safe, accessible, and digestible content to the consumer, but does so unobtrusively and quietly, allowing them to take the effort to experience it on their own.”
I see very striking parallels in this—primarily the phenomenon of consciously, or not, giving up an active role in the perception of history in favor of transferring this role… Somewhere. To a character who experiences emotions for the consumer, to a voice-over laugh that tells the consumer that it’s funny, to a tour guide who conveys not only understanding but also feelings, thereby allowing the consumer to purchase the “pyramid fact.”
Or, for example, with neural networks, the game of Go.
Similarly, I experienced the development of neural network content in writing stories. Initially, I believed that a neural network could be useful, if not in writing, then in polishing and finding suitable expressions for my thoughts, but then I discovered that
A—many stories are unbearably monotonous, and I see AI responses with their characteristic speech patterns. If it were just one author, I might find these patterns to be okay, but seeing them over and over and over again, I eventually started closing these stories.
B—the brain’s desire to optimize the difficult creative process leads it to delegate as much as possible to AI, transitioning from the role of a master and apprentice to that of a conductor, and then to that of a lazy goblin master. Even within the scope of finding a single solution, I’ve noticed how I’ve transitioned from independently selecting solutions and working with AI to evaluating AI solutions and then attempting to delegate the evaluation process.
And this is a hobby.
How much more tempting would it be for something I’m doing for the sake of a result that meets the requirements for earning money?
It seems to be on the same level. In today’s world, offering a gratuitous transfer of power and a managerial role, even in something that should be enjoyable, is surprisingly competitive.
Just today I read a post dedicated to the fact that most of the modern tourist routes imply that the tour guide in them, as the author put it, “the producer of interpassivity”.
The author of the post argues that it’s not necessarily a bad thing: a tired factory worker or a father of a large family who has finally saved up for a vacation may not have the energy to actively perceive and feel things. Experiencing emotions is a job, and a person doesn’t have the energy to laugh, but they want to consume comedy.
The consumer doesn’t want to engage in philosophy. They want to consume the pyramid fact and the emotions associated with pyramids in the form of a ready-made product. And the market creates a product that consumes itself.
It’s clear that there are obvious disadvantages to this approach, and I won’t go into them, but the post concludes with an example of a perfect combination, where “a tired tour guide, like a bird, regurgitates safe, accessible, and digestible content to the consumer, but does so unobtrusively and quietly, allowing them to take the effort to experience it on their own.”
I see very striking parallels in this—primarily the phenomenon of consciously, or not, giving up an active role in the perception of history in favor of transferring this role… Somewhere. To a character who experiences emotions for the consumer, to a voice-over laugh that tells the consumer that it’s funny, to a tour guide who conveys not only understanding but also feelings, thereby allowing the consumer to purchase the “pyramid fact.”
Or, for example, with neural networks, the game of Go.
Similarly, I experienced the development of neural network content in writing stories. Initially, I believed that a neural network could be useful, if not in writing, then in polishing and finding suitable expressions for my thoughts, but then I discovered that
A—many stories are unbearably monotonous, and I see AI responses with their characteristic speech patterns. If it were just one author, I might find these patterns to be okay, but seeing them over and over and over again, I eventually started closing these stories.
B—the brain’s desire to optimize the difficult creative process leads it to delegate as much as possible to AI, transitioning from the role of a master and apprentice to that of a conductor, and then to that of a lazy goblin master. Even within the scope of finding a single solution, I’ve noticed how I’ve transitioned from independently selecting solutions and working with AI to evaluating AI solutions and then attempting to delegate the evaluation process.
And this is a hobby.
How much more tempting would it be for something I’m doing for the sake of a result that meets the requirements for earning money?
It seems to be on the same level. In today’s world, offering a gratuitous transfer of power and a managerial role, even in something that should be enjoyable, is surprisingly competitive.
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