2 hours agoThis is sooo aimed at ai and the attack on white collar brains. But why is this only now a concern when a large set of the population does mindless jobs like security, manufacturing, repetitive tasks. Their minds are already struggling along with their wallets to pay for this extra brain exercise needed.
7 hours agoTrue. But… the point is that once something becomes incredibly easy to do by machine, often the thing worth learning moves on. I’m a graphic designer, people used to do cut and paste and letter setting and letraset etc. Still techniques you could explore and learn but it’s not applicable to modern design at all because advanced tooling made it obsolete. There is still friction in any creative act, just where it sits in the process changes. If you’re doing it for fun, by all means dive into whatever you want and learn it. But if it’s commercial success you want I would encourage people to become an expert in whatever the frontier techniques are. There is still a top 1% AI users as there are 1% writers.
11 hours agoInline with your analogy, schools only measure how far the weight has moved. All the teachers say ‘don’t use the forklift’ but that’s a ridiculous notion to a student whose only goal is to move the weight across the room (and all their friends have forklifts). For a ‘schools as mental gyms’ model, the entire framework of the education system needs to change immediately to one which measures process not outcome
17 hours agoI love this woman's aura and presence. Lecture without lecturing. She listens. Speaks without sounding preachy. Self aware. And on top of all that... she just so happens to be absolutely right.
a day agoLuddites weren’t against technology, they just wanted fair compensation. Stop saying people are Luddites as being anti tech. Talk about thinking, try learning.
