Not a new problem. Technology has been rationalized as labor saving and time saving devices. The cost was not just in the difference say, between subsistence versus mechanized farming, or longhand writing versus voice to print. The saving of time, heating in an oven versus a microwave, has come to compress time into moments in rapid transition. Time is accelerating and with it we lose touch with the reality that moving through time requires time to reflect on the connections between past generations and the future we desire rather than the one we are given. The discipline of human agency requires that we discipline AI, rather than be disciplined by it.
- even for old problems: Past performance is not necessarily a good indicator for future performance. That time has been more and more compressed does not meen that it cannot get compressed too much for most humans to "function", i.e. to make meaning, to cope with changes etc. . Similar to the fact that while we have always exploited Earths resources, this does not imply that we will always be able to. Rather, we run against limits. Maybe there are similar limits on time compression (or on the frequency of change) humans can handle without going mad?
- on discipline: I think it is safe to say that at any point in human history, the vast majority of people was not disciplined unless they absolutely needed to be. They were seducable, took the easy way wherever possible. If now a very easy way is possible, with taking AI shortcuts, AI shopping advice, and the like, how does a disciplined individual *in an undisciplined world* discipline AI?
Not a new problem. Technology has been rationalized as labor saving and time saving devices. The cost was not just in the difference say, between subsistence versus mechanized farming, or longhand writing versus voice to print. The saving of time, heating in an oven versus a microwave, has come to compress time into moments in rapid transition. Time is accelerating and with it we lose touch with the reality that moving through time requires time to reflect on the connections between past generations and the future we desire rather than the one we are given. The discipline of human agency requires that we discipline AI, rather than be disciplined by it.
I agree. Two points, though:
- even for old problems: Past performance is not necessarily a good indicator for future performance. That time has been more and more compressed does not meen that it cannot get compressed too much for most humans to "function", i.e. to make meaning, to cope with changes etc. . Similar to the fact that while we have always exploited Earths resources, this does not imply that we will always be able to. Rather, we run against limits. Maybe there are similar limits on time compression (or on the frequency of change) humans can handle without going mad?
- on discipline: I think it is safe to say that at any point in human history, the vast majority of people was not disciplined unless they absolutely needed to be. They were seducable, took the easy way wherever possible. If now a very easy way is possible, with taking AI shortcuts, AI shopping advice, and the like, how does a disciplined individual *in an undisciplined world* discipline AI?