Ah, phenomenal writing Katy! So many points here that are worth thinking on. I loved this "species’ characteristic sin: the voluntary dehumanization of another human, or of the self, for the sake of scoring public image-points"
and this
"Don’t put anything past people. If something good is wreckable, we’ll find a way to wreck it. Exploitable? We’ll find a way to exploit it. Consumable—we’ll consume."
Being in the conservation and sustainable agriculture movement, I see the second dynamic everywhere. Especially when it is linked to the human desire to be limitless (limitless in our consumption, extraction of the earth's resources, limitless in our economic growth...). And we see this limitless dynamic crystal clearly with AI-produced content.
Ah, phenomenal writing Katy! So many points here that are worth thinking on. I loved this "species’ characteristic sin: the voluntary dehumanization of another human, or of the self, for the sake of scoring public image-points"
and this
"Don’t put anything past people. If something good is wreckable, we’ll find a way to wreck it. Exploitable? We’ll find a way to exploit it. Consumable—we’ll consume."
Being in the conservation and sustainable agriculture movement, I see the second dynamic everywhere. Especially when it is linked to the human desire to be limitless (limitless in our consumption, extraction of the earth's resources, limitless in our economic growth...). And we see this limitless dynamic crystal clearly with AI-produced content.
Katy -- inquiring minds want to know the title of the picture book about making art!