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Not much more magical than delivering a chicken to the butcher, and getting back pieces of meat. Or delivering a typed manuscript to your publisher, and getting
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Not much more magical than delivering a chicken to the butcher, and getting back pieces of meat. Or delivering a typed manuscript to your publisher, and getting a bound book. Or any trade essentially.
Having a machine do it - that was new. But not the part about abdicating responsibility for function.
- eternityforest 4y agoAlmost every trade has people freaking out and trying to push us all to be generalists. And I'll continue ignoring pretty much all of them, because division of labor is a lot of why society is so advanced. I'll grant them the chickens though, mass produced meat is one case where the abstraction hides some horrors that should be exposed. But simple loss of skill isn't enough to convince me. I don't need to be able to build a CPU from scratch, any more than the CPU designer needs to know all of CSS. These things are cool and worth exploring, but most any tech one person can understand themselves is probably a historical curiosity more than a practical thing. The rare exceptions like rope and knots are incredibly fascinating.
- kingfish22 4y agohey Joe, how can I get in touch with you regarding a RE project similar to what you did for Golem a couple years ago? I don't see any private messaging or ways to contact individuals through this site, so I am just responding to your most recent post in hopes to start a dialog. Do you still work on RE projects?
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoemail in my profile!
- kingfish22 4y agoOK, I am apparently not smart enough to figure out how to do that! LOL When I click your name, there is no email address or option to email. Perhaps you could email mine? We have also posted the job on UpWork if you are on that website?