AI and the human condition
Ben Thompson in AI and the Human Condition:
Perhaps it follows, then, that the devaluing of labor Patel and Trammell warns about actually frees humans up to once again create beauty?
A person can dream. (Relevant link: The Youtube video Why is the modern world so ugly? by the Cultural Tutor.)
On the whole, I'm with Ben on his optimistic take. In a way, it would be posthumous vindication for J.M. Keynes, who thought that the eventual outcome of technological progress would be that we'd all essentially spend our days with close to endless leisure time.1
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It's been a while since my economic history studies, so take this claim with a pinch of salt. ↩