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> The captain doesn't need to understand the calculation that goes behind the optimal arrival time of his ship. But now he can't monitor its performance and in
by ardy42 6y ago
> The captain doesn't need to understand the calculation that goes behind the optimal arrival time of his ship.
But now he can't monitor its performance and intervene when it's wrong or offer feedback. He's turned into an automaton, and we're assuming his central planner has all the knowledge and understanding necessary to successfully manage a central plan and react to (perhaps unexpected) changes.
And that's only considering the perspective of task performance, which is not the only angle here. Is it really a better world if all the tasks are performed perfectly, but if almost everyone's reduced to a deskilled, mind-numbed, burger-flipper?
- quintushoratius 6y ago> Is it really a better world if all the tasks are performed perfectly, but if almost everyone's reduced to a deskilled, mind-numbed, burger-flipper? In your metaphor you're assuming that the captain becomes a low skill automoton. Is he that, or has automation allowed him to set aside drudge and concentrate on the interesting parts of his job? Do you think calculators make us dumb, or do they help us with the arithmetic while our minds can turn to the important, interesting parts of the problem at hand?
- natmaka 6y agoThe "technique" isn't confined into menial tasks. It gains speed on interesting parts and noble avenues, for example automated theorem proving.