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Yep, "I Pencil" came to my mind as well. But opaqueness is the only thing that AI shares with global market (or catallaxy as Austrians would call it). What Bri
by unknown_apostle 10y ago
Yep, "I Pencil" came to my mind as well. But opaqueness is the only thing that AI shares with global market (or catallaxy as Austrians would call it).
What Brian Eno is missing, is that global markets are created by billions of human minds on the basis of a constant process of trial-and-error (to the extents government allows them to try and fail). It's not just error tolerant. It's constantly making profit by improving and correcting errors. And it's been around for 1000s of years.
Whereas computers have been around for less than a century and are programmed by a few people and AI may not have with "common sense" or error tolerance. To deliver yourself to that seems unacceptable to me.
- jacquesm 10y agoAnd it's not as if we didn't have pencils before economies of scale kicked in either, the invention of the pencil (1564) pre-dates much of the mechanisms described in 'I, Pencil' so at one point it was definitely possible to know the entirety of pencil-making. Even so it serves as a very graphic reminder of how interconnected all of humanity and industry is at this point. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/p/pencil.shtml http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/p/pencil.sht...