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The promise and fear of an assembly line for knowledge work
- bediger 16y agoWhy do we bother using "assembly line" metaphors, or trying to make "knowledge work" into a trade, or even unskilled labor, when we have the warm reassurance of Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...) and the answer to Hilbert's 10th problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matiyasevich%27s_theorem#Matiyasevich.27s_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matiyasevich%27s_theorem#Matiya...)? I mean, really, truth is not an industrial product.
- Panos 16y agoBut intellectual labor can become an industrial product. Not all products of intellectual effort are theorems and mathematical proofs. And please read this before citing Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/godels-theorem.html http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/godels-theorem.htm...