An actually useful dialogue about things like "should AI take care of my personal chores/comms/etc" should divorce the subject from AI as a technology and think about mechanization more generally mitpress.mit.edu/978026252652... - ThreadSky

aelkus.bsky.social • 12 days ago

An actually useful dialogue about things like "should AI take care of my personal chores/comms/etc" should divorce the subject from AI as a technology and think about mechanization more generally https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262526524/the-shape-of-actions/

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aelkus.bsky.social•12 days ago

There are an enormous amount of human functions that are purely autonomic and reflexive. The context in which they unfold is largely irrelevant -- if you hit me, I will flinch in the exact same manner regardless whether I am in the Sahara desert or a cocktail party

aelkus.bsky.social•12 days ago

Everything above this level is more muddled. I might unconsciously exhibit particular mannerisms in public, but they are conditioned on a social setting that is both simultaneously a part of myself and an external environment I inhabit. It is not the same thing as flinching after being hit

aelkus.bsky.social•12 days ago

The particular challenge I uniquely have as a human being is that I have the ability to offload the burden of doing something to an external model or mechanism. I do not have to decide who to vote for if I just say "vote Blue no matter who." I do not have to navigate if I just use my car GPS

aelkus.bsky.social•12 days ago

This is an old subject in the history of science, technology, and material culture

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816690435/mechanization-takes-command/

aelkus.bsky.social•12 days ago

https://www.amazon.com/Technics-Civilization-Lewis-Mumford/dp/0226550273

aelkus.bsky.social•12 days ago

This is a vast and complex subject and I am going to crudely reduce it to a science fiction thought experiment. This actually predated Severance, which I have never watched at all or had much interest in!

luck3drag0n.bsky.social•12 days ago

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jjinandtonic.bsky.social•12 days ago

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corynwolk.bsky.social•12 days ago

I wish everyone would read/listen to Ursula Franklin:
"The real world of technology seems to involve an
inherent trust in machines and devices ('production is under control') and a basic apprehension of people (‘growth is chancy, one can never be sure of the outcome')."
https://monoskop.org/images/5/58/Franklin_Ursula_The_Real_World_of_Technology_1990.pdf

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