Shortform #108 Tool use, software, and digitising operations
How does one as a human being stay relevant and able to solve enough problems that others experience to earn a living? No, AGI does not seem to be here yet, but our lives are governed, shaped, impacted by, and sometimes even ended via machine algorithmic decision making.
What tools are you using as prosthetics to augment your capabilities?
Do you care about privacy or should privacy be given up to allow a closer integration with digital operations & support from machine algorithmic decision making? Or is this a false dichotomy?
What are your workflows, i.e. how do you get work done, howsoever you define what that work is? Do you automate as much of your workflows as possible so that you can [note: incoming normative value judgement] spend more of your time, your mind, your self, etc. on creative or building type activities?
Are you working a job that is stagnant and likely to “go away” unless specifically politically protected? Is the company or organization you’re working for sclerotic, or set in its ways, or does not support you advancing your own knowledge & skills at a rate you feel is more than adequate?
Those are the sorts of questions that creep into my mind with increasing frequency and urgency. I feel this vast gulf between those who own “the capital”, “the robots”, “the machine algorithmic decision making”, whatever you may call it...and those who don’t and are left behind to beg for kindness. I feel that I’m firmly in the second camp still, and am fighting to make my way elsewhere.
Everything feels that much more urgent, as of late. Festina lente, or rather...don’t get blackpilled by accelerationism...stay positive, keep moving forward.
Shortform #108 Tool use, software, and digitising operations
How does one as a human being stay relevant and able to solve enough problems that others experience to earn a living? No, AGI does not seem to be here yet, but our lives are governed, shaped, impacted by, and sometimes even ended via machine algorithmic decision making.
What tools are you using as prosthetics to augment your capabilities? Do you care about privacy or should privacy be given up to allow a closer integration with digital operations & support from machine algorithmic decision making? Or is this a false dichotomy? What are your workflows, i.e. how do you get work done, howsoever you define what that work is? Do you automate as much of your workflows as possible so that you can [note: incoming normative value judgement] spend more of your time, your mind, your self, etc. on creative or building type activities? Are you working a job that is stagnant and likely to “go away” unless specifically politically protected? Is the company or organization you’re working for sclerotic, or set in its ways, or does not support you advancing your own knowledge & skills at a rate you feel is more than adequate?
Those are the sorts of questions that creep into my mind with increasing frequency and urgency. I feel this vast gulf between those who own “the capital”, “the robots”, “the machine algorithmic decision making”, whatever you may call it...and those who don’t and are left behind to beg for kindness. I feel that I’m firmly in the second camp still, and am fighting to make my way elsewhere.
Everything feels that much more urgent, as of late. Festina lente, or rather...don’t get blackpilled by accelerationism...stay positive, keep moving forward.