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> The value of human thinking is going down. Wrong. Creativity, innovation, intuition, taste - all forms of thought solely inherent to humans, all going up.
by ossa-ma 8mo ago
> The value of human thinking is going down.
Wrong. Creativity, innovation, intuition, taste - all forms of thought solely inherent to humans, all going up.
- elliotbnvl 8mo agoI used to agree completely, and a part of me still does. But the part of me that's scared that this isn't true is getting louder and louder. I'm a novelist and software engineer. The value of one of those skills is trending to zero. I'm not seeing much to suggest, in the face of the hockey stick of doom, that the other isn't.
- 52-6F-62 8mo agoDepends. Are you still measuring value in dollars?
- elliotbnvl 8mo agoI got mouths to feed, so... yeah.
- 52-6F-62 8mo agoIndeed. But the line of discussion was about the value of human thought.
- ativzzz 8mo agoIf our human thoughts can't be translated to food and shelter, then we'll pick up guns and go steal the food and shelter from someone else.
- 52-6F-62 8mo agoNoted. Sometimes what needs translated to food and shelter isn't your thoughts, however. If you nurture and value thoughts regardless, this point will be understandable.
- trashb 8mo agoIf anyone can create what they want won't coming up with good ideas be the value, therefore the creativity will become more important? I don't know what you wrote and I agree that it is very sad that the skill of writing is very undervalued at this moment. But I think that trend is not new and in reality not created by AI (just accelerated). But I think value of writing was never in the writing itself but the knowledge and ideas behind the writing. Because mechanics of writing sped up (handwritten, typewriter, word processor). But the process of writing a novel did not speed up significantly as the bottleneck is the ideas and iteration on those ideas not the delivery of the output. Similar to how programming is more then typing code. So I think the real crisis right now is that people equate typing speed with programming speed (or writing speed) and due to advances in the former undervalue the later. Sadly the reality is that it won't pay for the bills anymore. Perhaps in a while people will realize how important the quality of ideas (and the iteration to arrive at them) is.
- danny_codes 8mo agowhy? We have no real evidence to support this claim.
- lelanthran 8mo ago> Wrong. Creativity, innovation, intuition, taste - all forms of thought solely inherent to humans, all going up. How do you define value? I mean, if the demand remains the same and the supply goes stratospheric, the value has to go down. After all, purchasers don't very well care that your product has creativity, etc and that that other identical product was just an AI cloning your product.