Comment by bonoboTP
7 days ago
The OG alienator was the Agricultural Revolution, settling and toiling repetitively in predetermined ways, unlike the more adventurous lifestyle from before with all the camping, hunting, gathering, where circumstances brought always novel challenges, you could be a man spearing a deer, instead of just killing some docile domesticated cow. Searching for pheasant eggs and being happy if you found some, instead of going out every morning to the predictable presence of eggs in the chicken coop.
Although, gradually, all over the world people chose that lifestyle rather than take their chances with the seasons and the hunt.
Chose is a little strong. They were forced into it because agricultural societies could field armies orders of magnitude larger than hunter/gatherers.
It's telling that the nobles of agricultural societies generally still hunted, and often reserved that privilege.
Exactly, and similarly people may adopt AI too, whether they like the aesthetics or not.
Mostly because if you settled down a tilled a field of barley you had a reliable source of beer. Finding beer in the wild was and still is an almost certain failure.
The roots of global civilization are brown and frothy.
So what you're telling me is that I am genetically predisposed to brew and drink beer?
Explains a lot.
Explains it to my satisfaction!
Comparing the impact of LLMs on programming to the agricultural revolution is a pretty solid analogy!