Distinctively human, now
Matthias Melcher,
x28's New Blog,
Mar 11, 2023
The first line of this post is the most challenging, as Matthias Melcher begins by observing, "Everyone needs to find their response to the question of what humans can do better than an AI." I thought about that for a bit. Is it true? What assumptions are built into it? It's as though we need to be better than a machine to - what? To survive? To find meaning in life? No - we can find better ways to both through, say, social justice, or religion, or through adventure. I for example, will be bikepacking around 1,000 km this summer (I hope - none of my bikepacking plans have survived intact thus far). Sure, a machine (like my car, say) could do the trip much better. Faster. Cheaper. But where's the fun in that? It's not about being better than the machine, to my mind. It never has been.
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