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Yes, it's very meditative to do the dishes once a month. The problem is how do you alleviate the pain of the single parent with 2 human children today. And my
by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Yes, it's very meditative to do the dishes once a month.
The problem is how do you alleviate the pain of the single parent with 2 human children today. And my point is, if I could put together 2 Python packages to make a robotic arm able to listen to that parent's commands and do the dishes, clean after the kids, and so on, I would do it as fast as you can type "zen", even if the Python packages in cause would "feel" a bit uneasy cleaning after those 2 kids.
- YawningAngel 3y agoWould you? It seems like you're leaning heavily on the idea that the python packages don't have the same moral weight as the single parent, which is an odd thing to believe if the python packages can actually have experiences. The reason why we don't worry about python packages is exactly that we _don't_ think that, surely
- ly3xqhl8g9 3y agoJust an example of course, but we can imagine some `from consciousness import *` line in some undefined future.
- 52-6F-62 3y agoWe’ve heard many times about “automating the boring things” before. It never happens. It misses the point, and the problem. Or if it’s ever on offer, the price is usually way higher than it’s worth in the long run. In your analogy, the stressor isn’t the dishes or the children. They’re not problems to be solved. They’re inevitable. Like the sun setting. The issue there is some prescription that you should be doing anything else under the circumstances of dirty dishes and your children needing attention.