Re: the command line is language

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

For many years already, people talk about the concern with technology
replacing the human hand in the labor market.  ``Machines will replace

This has been discussed since... the 1700s? 1800s? And every time people were
wrong. I do not believe that it will be any difference this time. Humans needs
and desires are infinite, so machines automating stuff, just pushes humans
further up the value chain. Should everything be automated, there are still many
fields that will remain such as...
* Literature
* Science
* Politics
* Sports * Religion * Philosophy * Services (human service will command a premium price=
* Artisanship * Food/restaurants
* Space exploration
and the list just continues. More automation will bring us closer to a post
scarcity future. The only problem is, how do we deal with that? People with
built in motivation, interest and joy of life will thrive.... BUT... people who
have been brought up as machines will have a huge problem with motivation!

humans.''  Machines have already replaced humans a long time ago; the
reason you still find humans in manual labor is merely because humans
are still the cheapest machines around.  When the robot becomes cheaper,
humans will need to find new means of survival.

True!

Non-sarcastically speaking now, what we should concern ourselves with is
how to live a dignifying life, an objective that seems impossible to
achieve by any method whatsoever: it is precisely by confining life in
methods (as if we were scientific problems to be solved) that we become
indistinguishable from machines.  Methods are useful to solve equations,
but they will not quite help us in *living* in its deep sense.

I study positive psychology and transpersonal psychology. I think those two
disciplines will be very valuable in helping us to understand how human beings
can thrive and become happy in an ideal world, where everything is automated.
We would have to re-think education, community building, spirituality,
healthcare etc.