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I didn't miss the point of the quotation. I am not really concerned with your motivations. My point was that Mallory's quotation becomes distorted by technologi
by vouaobrasil 2y ago
I didn't miss the point of the quotation. I am not really concerned with your motivations. My point was that Mallory's quotation becomes distorted by technological society to present new challenges that are relatively harmful and stupid, like making a small ChatGPT clone (or even making ChatGPT in the first place).
So while I agree that some people's motivations may be sound, it is how they are applied that is a perversion, and that Mallory's quotation has the germ of a phenomenon that is incredibly dangerous and isn't as deserving of awe as it is.
- jstanley 2y agoA person had an idea for something they wanted to do. They set about doing it. They undoubtedly ran into difficulties and had to think about how to solve them. They came up with solutions, probably some of the solutions aren't as elegant as they had hoped for, but they reached something that was acceptable, again and again. And eventually they created something that, to some extent, satisfied them. That process is the joy. I just don't see the harm in what this person has done? Envisaging something that could be created, and then creating it, is what life is all about. I just don't see how words like "perversion" and "distortion" can sensibly be applied to this work?
- vouaobrasil 2y agoThe entire point is that technology shapes society so that joyful activities are subverted to create perversions like AI. The atomic bomb was an intellectually stimulating joy for many physicists for example. Life is about joy but it must be accompanied by the responsibility to seek joy in activities that don't do harm like AI.