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Our obsession with efficiency is costing us our humanity

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18 points manveerc | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 20:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rogerkirkness ◴[03 Sep 25 20:19 UTC] No.45119966[source]▶
One way we can choose to apply AI is to re-humanize ourselves and focus less on being machine-like. Over time I think we should adopt a philosophy of using machines for machine work, and refocus ourselves on creativity, judgement and connection.
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1. scared_together ◴[04 Sep 25 08:07 UTC] No.45124868[source]▶
You are phrasing this as an individual choice but people have poured billions of dollars into making software mediate creativity (image and text generation), and connection (social media, dating apps). Whereas the repetitive work of assembling products in a factory is still being done by humans in China and other middle income countries.

Where is the VC profit from letting people “re-humanize”? Nowhere, because people were human before they were profitable.