Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by selestify on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @11:12PM
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> For instance, most individuals would probably never agree to manufacture a weapon that is specifically requested to kill your neighbor.
Are you talking about gun manufacturing for law enforcement or military purposes? Because those weapons aren’t manufactured to kill one specific person (my neighbor).
If somehow the government were to pay me adequately to hand-craft a gun for the police or military, I would have no moral compunctions in doing so. I see no reason for the government to ask me to hand-make an inferior good at such high cost, though.
Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by chromoblob on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:08PM
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Which is obviously irrational, so maybe we shouldn't care about such individuals, at least in long term.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle
Companies exhibit emergent behavior that might be hard, if at all possible, to predict if you only had a single individual as reference. For instance, most individuals would probably never agree to manufacture a weapon that is specifically requested to kill your neighbor. However, this same individual will show no empathy and remorse for their labor in a company that produces something that is used to commit incredible destruction to the earth, even contributing to the deaths of millions of people.