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Neither Yes nor No.

indiafacts.org/chatuskoti-fou…
The natural order of any system is to the rise of entropy: communication will descend into utter gibberish.

But this can be resolved through the notion of “Yajña”. This, only “Dēvas” can truly participate in a democracy. I discussed this in this thread.

*Thus

On the contrast between the Daivic and Asuric modes of using language for reasoning:
pragyata.com/mag/morality-i…

The Daivic model requires constant perception, whereas the Asuric model eliminates the need for observation.
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I think there was a steady and continuous slide from 1970s to now, on recognizing inner talent vs outer bling-bling.

The 70s had rock stars. The 80s had pop stars. The 90s reality TV stars. The 00s had YouTube stars. The 10s had Instagram stars. Next we’ll have bot-stars.
The context of the artistic experience and creative process doesn’t matter much now, as far as popular appraisal is concerned. People’s attention spans got much shorter, and everything can (must?) be cropped and photoshopped in the most presentable manner.
On the other hand, there is a veritable explosion of tiny communities who nourish true creativity even today. But how do they survive and sustain themselves economically? Not possible as the web ecosystem supports only the top performers and aggregate monopolies. Not subcultures.
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It is true that we must develop machine-learning models that can represent causality, but there is no one notion of causality that “represents our intuition about cause and effect”.

All notions of causality are tied up with theology, and specifically, with the theology of time.
When we say the “intuitive notion of cause and effect”, what we typically mean is the Christian theology of time which is the dominant paradigm today, and secularized version of it known as “Deism”, that attributes the fundamental cause to a mover external to the universe.
This theological model of time is implicitly assumed within physics, for example, when we posit the “Big Bang” as the origin of space-time.

Then on, causality is modeled as one directional links from a “past” event to a “future” event.

But this model fails at singularities.
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Well, only the most misinformed of the people would say that AI is about automating “routine work”.

The most drudguous jobs are the last to be automated. It is white collar jobs that get automated first. The proportion of bullshit jobs that humans have is increasing over time.
Even if we accept that routine work is getting automated, and somehow that it is a good thing, what does “humans will achieve more” mean ?

It is ‘newspeak’ to mean “humans will consume more”. And consume till when? Until the ecosystems of the planet get depleted beyond recovery.
The strange western idea of “progress” as a kind of accelerating consumption of resources can only lead to one thing: human extinction.

Other civilizations had other metrics for defining what “achieving more” means. In that perspective, routine work is not at all a bad thing.
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1./. EXECUTIVE ORDER 6433 created the organization which shall be known as the National Emergency Council
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