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> This principle is broadly extensible to work and art Nah, as a consumer it makes no difference to me if a meat packing factory or Amazon warehouse employs 50
by christianqchung 2y ago
> This principle is broadly extensible to work and art
Nah, as a consumer it makes no difference to me if a meat packing factory or Amazon warehouse employs 5000 or 5 people. To art, this principle is totally real, but for work, it only applies to some/most of it.
- cynicalpeace 2y agoRead the next sentence: "We only care about machines insofar as it serves us." Imagine a machine doing "work" that only serves itself and other machines that does no service to humanity. It would have no economic value. In fact the whole concept of "work" only makes sense if it is assigned economic value by humans.
- christianqchung 2y agoThen we agree, but your chess example made it sound like if a machine could automatically pack meat with little human intervention, people wouldn't want it. That's also not the next sentence. How is it broadly applicable to work?
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