I was also a little confused about the post’s initial claim:
Sometimes we think of ‘artificial intelligence’ as whatever technology ultimately automates human cognitive labor.
Maybe I haven’t encountered thoughts like that much, or I’ve been reading too much David Chapman, but my immediate thought after reading the above was something like ‘most human cognitive labor isn’t automated by technology but obviated, usually by engineering the relevant environment’.
I was also a little confused about the post’s initial claim:
Maybe I haven’t encountered thoughts like that much, or I’ve been reading too much David Chapman, but my immediate thought after reading the above was something like ‘most human cognitive labor isn’t automated by technology but obviated, usually by engineering the relevant environment’.