> reduce the value of human intelligence and creativity, commoditizing them Creativity rewards the creator. There is a pleasure in creating, thinking, & unders

> reduce the value of human intelligence and creativity, commoditizing them Creativity rewards the creator. There is a pleasure in creating, thinking, & understanding that is entirely private. Nothing will ever change this. If you are an artist, or private philosopher, or tinkerer, or hacker, you know precisely what I am talking about. Nothing whatsoever in this world can ever change this. Some creatives do crave recognition and an audience (cue Spirit by Bauhaus) but not all. I have no doubt whatsoever that there are hidden masterpieces, hidden jewels of thought. The fact that others, on the consuming end of creative works, also find pleasure is and has always been a side-effect. And not necessarily a positive side-effect. (Think of the 'commoditization' of art on the consuming side, as a means to signal social status (or as some would have it a means to launder money. ;)) Maybe once we have hack AI artist, we can finally be rid of hack artists (here is looking at you Andy). So, possibly a positive end on that score. ~ I've always found Frank Herbert's choice of words -- Butlerian Jihad -- to be right on the mark. There certainly will be a spiritual movement organized around opposing the notion that Human beings are merely meat machines. We love, we hate, we cry, we laugh, we know what joy means, we know how love feels. Can your machines (or "machine off-spring") do that?