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I don't want to disagree with this article, my motivated reasoning as a weird person is strong. But my contrarian nature is winning. Uniformity seems to be a f
by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I don't want to disagree with this article, my motivated reasoning as a weird person is strong. But my contrarian nature is winning.
Uniformity seems to be a feature of scale. Institutions are just one form of scaled human intelligence/activity. Our desire for strong institutions, driven by a belief that strong institutions lead to better overall average outcomes for all humans, therefore creates pressure for uniformity that is shown in our education system. We stop seeing "human" and start seeing "citizen".
But that same need for uniformity to drive massive scale won't be lessened by AI. If I am right, then in order to scale our society AI will require uniformity just as much, if not more. If there is a direct relation between scale and uniformity and if we direct AI towards scale then AI will enforce an even greater uniformity on humanity.
Basically, if we want things cheap then we have to do them at scale. If we want things done at scale then we have to treat the components as uniform. Therefore, AI may lead to more uniformity as we direct it to make things cheaper and scale them out.