You seem to be young. I was in my thirties in the nineties, so I have adult memories of them, which you do not have. I was also a foster parent as well as a PhD industrial scientist working for a multinational company, as was my wife. She had a daughter from a previous marriage who never had children. We adopted one of our foster kids and so I have a daughter, who had two adult children, who are poor and struggling and whom I see regularly.
So I have three perspectives with which to view events: the perspective from peers, the perspective from my kids and the other foster kids' children, and the perspective gained from 25 years of self-study of non-technical social disciplines.
And given that I can tell you that the early 1990's view was positive for the sorts of people who would do well (that of my peers). While I viewed the prospect of working from the beach (as forecasted in those famous ATT commercials) with horror (I saw these things in real time and that was my reaction).
I never took my work home until the pandemic and then worked from home until I retired. I felt working from home was asking too much. After all none of my kids and grandkids, working at low-wage jobs working from home (as my stepdaughter would do during the pandemic with positive results for her--on which case it is OK).
I have an interpretation of the idea of always on the job that seems to be common not that is uncharitable. I'll leave that as it stands.
Thanks for your thoughts. The fact that you were alive then gives you a big leg-up on me in that regard. I'll confirm my youth too - I'll start my thirties this decade.
One of the things that most surprised me when reading the book was just how prescient it was - just not about how we would all feel about it. A lot of what was said came to pass, but I guess everyone thought it would all go better, because things actually were getting better! I think in many ways, they actually are, but we haven't come to grips with how to manage them quite yet, I feel.
What's facinating about this, both in content and title, is this is the core element I exploited in my Novel on Advanced AI. Namely that these problems create the fractures from which malicious actors can exploit. It truely is the Paradox I explore
We've never been truly free. Love him or hate him, Sam Harris makes an interesting case on free-will. Bottom line we have to accept we are biological meat machines of hormones and low brain function we can't control and our logical prefrontal cortex is a very late addition in Humans.
We really don't have a lot of pure independent action.
Yeah, that's pretty true. The way I see it is that we're simultaneously trying to figure out the user manual on the human body while muddling our way through using it.
Doctors get paid more than mechanics because mechanics can work off the user's manual, while doctors participate in figuring out the user's manual.
You seem to be young. I was in my thirties in the nineties, so I have adult memories of them, which you do not have. I was also a foster parent as well as a PhD industrial scientist working for a multinational company, as was my wife. She had a daughter from a previous marriage who never had children. We adopted one of our foster kids and so I have a daughter, who had two adult children, who are poor and struggling and whom I see regularly.
So I have three perspectives with which to view events: the perspective from peers, the perspective from my kids and the other foster kids' children, and the perspective gained from 25 years of self-study of non-technical social disciplines.
And given that I can tell you that the early 1990's view was positive for the sorts of people who would do well (that of my peers). While I viewed the prospect of working from the beach (as forecasted in those famous ATT commercials) with horror (I saw these things in real time and that was my reaction).
I never took my work home until the pandemic and then worked from home until I retired. I felt working from home was asking too much. After all none of my kids and grandkids, working at low-wage jobs working from home (as my stepdaughter would do during the pandemic with positive results for her--on which case it is OK).
I have an interpretation of the idea of always on the job that seems to be common not that is uncharitable. I'll leave that as it stands.
Thanks for your thoughts. The fact that you were alive then gives you a big leg-up on me in that regard. I'll confirm my youth too - I'll start my thirties this decade.
One of the things that most surprised me when reading the book was just how prescient it was - just not about how we would all feel about it. A lot of what was said came to pass, but I guess everyone thought it would all go better, because things actually were getting better! I think in many ways, they actually are, but we haven't come to grips with how to manage them quite yet, I feel.
What's facinating about this, both in content and title, is this is the core element I exploited in my Novel on Advanced AI. Namely that these problems create the fractures from which malicious actors can exploit. It truely is the Paradox I explore
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Are you truly free, if you outsource your decision-making to someone else? Machine or man, you and only you are your first and best advocate. :)
We've never been truly free. Love him or hate him, Sam Harris makes an interesting case on free-will. Bottom line we have to accept we are biological meat machines of hormones and low brain function we can't control and our logical prefrontal cortex is a very late addition in Humans.
We really don't have a lot of pure independent action.
Yeah, that's pretty true. The way I see it is that we're simultaneously trying to figure out the user manual on the human body while muddling our way through using it.
Doctors get paid more than mechanics because mechanics can work off the user's manual, while doctors participate in figuring out the user's manual.
When you become a Dad they say that the owners manual is in the placenta...