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Ask HN: Where do human creativity goes?

by aizyuval on 12/16/22, 7:47 PM with 2 comments

It freaks me out.

Regarding A(G)I, automation, robots, etc. Are we on the edge of a revolution that will completely destroy the ‘human touch’?

I feel, and concerned, with the fact that we’re becoming more spoiled, softer, and losing our human touch. Everything is dehumanizing.

More and more tools are built that are suppose to make us do less work, think less, have an easier time.

Don’t you fear that at some point we will be so off what we are now and lose our touch?

  • by jmkr on 12/16/22, 8:11 PM

    What is the human touch and why do we value it? Maybe the answer to this question is in terms of reevaluating what we find important in _the human touch_.

    If I was to take a quick guess I'd say what is important (at least to me) is the experience of 'x'. There is some kind of value in participation. Such as participating in the experience of building a thing as a creator. Or the participation in the experience of receiving a gift one created. Or even the experience of being an observer 'I participated in going to "y".'

    That's a rough paraphrase of something John Dewey says about what "art" is. There's also a lot written on the human condition in continental philosophy, and stuff like "being."

  • by catach on 12/16/22, 9:07 PM

    > More and more tools are built that are suppose to make us do less work, think less, have an easier time.

    The less effort we have to spend at what must be done to survive means more remaining effort available for what we want to do. Sounds great to me.