The World Economic Forum is calling for more direct action to end the pending food crisis. Amazing how that is timed with Oregon and Idaho water restrictions and Michigan Avian Flu crisis. Want fries with the grasshopper burger?
This Tues on Cultural Courage …
If we remove the cost and pain of acquiring skill with passive acceptance of what AI supplies us, we are creating gelatinous minds. That’s the greatest effect of AI.
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations”
—Orson Welles
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”
—Larry Page
With less assistance from digital libraries, we produced far different and more complex music
Queen II represents a tapestry of music, and while you may believe that the studio can present an illusion of musicality, the LIVE version of Queen’s music demonstrates a mastery of their craft.
When the roots of a tree are severed, that tree, no matter how mighty, falls to the ground. I use that analogy in conjunction with the image above to emphasize that we take it for granted that others think about the consequences of their actions. Some actions axiomatically result in destruction. Sever the roots of a tree, it dies.
There has to be a cost to acquiring skills. The barrier to entry makes you put forth the energy to acquire superior superior ability. Why? Because it makes those skills well earned, they become instincts. 10,000 hours to master a subject was the theme from the early 2000s if I recall correctly. It meant putting in the time, but not only would you be great at something, you would have taken a journey filled with experiences that no one would be able to replace. It meant that you could become a teacher and distill those concepts and skills to others. I would say that is a real connection.
Spending excessive amounts of time online has had two effects. For one, it removed the possibility for failure for our kids that we Gen Xers experienced while we practiced sports, played music, learned carpentry or worked to earn a little money. Many kids today struggle with building relationships because they haven’t witnessed each in a way that shows that they all face challenges. There is risk being active together in sports, in group activities that is not present at all in social networks. We are depriving our kids a sense of adventure, and not allowing them to seek out things for themselves where physical interaction is required, such as playing a band.