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← Feeding a machine without knowing its purpose deadens a worker's intellectual and moral life

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Everything filed under LLMs LLMs Everything filed under AI and science AI and science Everything filed under OpenAI OpenAI Everything filed under design design Everything filed under creativity creativity Everything filed under AI and human skill AI and human skill Everything filed under AI alignment AI alignment Everything filed under writing writing Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Feeding a machine without knowing its purpose deadens a worker's intellectual and moral life Feeding a machine without knowing itspurpose deadens a worker's intellectualand moral life JA Jane Addams — holds since c. 1902 — tap for who they are Same subject: In an intellectually dead research field, feeding AI decades of meaningless work only produces more meaningless output. — tap to centre the map on it In an intellectually dead researchfield, feeding AI decades ofmeaningless work only produces moremeaningless output. Last stated 3 months ago 26 Jul 2026 PW Peter Woit — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: It is the duty of machines and their designers to understand people, not people's duty to understand the dictates of machines — tap to centre the map on it It is the duty of machines and theirdesigners to understand people, notpeople's duty to understand thedictates of machines DN Don Norman — holds since c. 1988–2013 — tap for who they are Same subject: A worker who spends a whole life on a few simple, repetitive tasks generally loses the habit of thinking — tap to centre the map on it A worker who spends a whole life ona few simple, repetitive tasksgenerally loses the habit ofthinking Last stated 251 years ago 9 Mar 1776 AS Adam Smith — holds since 1776-03-09 — tap for who they are Same subject: Knowledge that lives only in a book or a machine is not knowledge you have. — tap to centre the map on it Knowledge that lives only in a bookor a machine is not knowledge youhave. Last stated 11 months ago 18 Nov 2025 SY Scott H. Young — holds since 2025-11-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: Machinery and division of labour make factory work monotonous and reduce the worker to an appendage of the machine — tap to centre the map on it Machinery and division of labourmake factory work monotonous andreduce the worker to an appendage ofthe machine KM Karl Marx — holds since c. 1848 — tap for who they are FE Friedrich Engels — holds since c. 1848 — tap for who they are Same subject: No one fully understands the consequences of how capable AI is becoming. — tap to centre the map on it No one fully understands theconsequences of how capable AI isbecoming. Last stated 2 months ago 1 Sept 2026 SA Sam Altman — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself. — tap to centre the map on it The ethical failure in using AI towrite is publishing unread, unownedwork, not using the tool itself. Last stated 3 months ago 9 Aug 2026 BF Brad Feld — holds since 2026-08-09 — tap for who they are Same subject: Putting young people to work prematurely may be a loss to industry itself, destroying their free labour quality — tap to centre the map on it Putting young people to workprematurely may be a loss toindustry itself, destroying theirfree labour quality JA Jane Addams — holds since c. 1906 — tap for who they are Same subject: A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic. — tap to centre the map on it A compound's AI origin story is notby itself a reason to expect it todo better in the clinic. Last stated 2 years ago 13 May 2024 DL Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-05-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it A computational discovery platformdoes not make a biotech fast,because the thousand other steps ofdrug development are still thebottleneck. Last stated 2 years ago 17 Sept 2024 AT Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known. — tap to centre the map on it A computational method can regularlypredict protein structures withatomic accuracy even when no similarstructure is known. Last stated 5 years ago 15 Jul 2021 DH Demis Hassabis — holds since 2021-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it A badly written AI outbound email isevidence of a bad vendor, not of alimit of AI. Last stated 10 months ago 1 Jan 2026 JL Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does notgive you a smarter model; theintelligence of the model is whatdecides how much of that window itcan actually attend to. Last stated 4 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it A body of publications is easy forAI models to consume via pretrainingcorpora but cumbersome for mosthumans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts,and paywalls. Last stated a month ago 17 Sept 2026 PC Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week. — tap to centre the map on it A PHP vulnerability found withGPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc thisweek. Last stated 2 weeks ago 21 Oct 2026 PS Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. — tap to centre the map on it A startup should not begin life as anonprofit and bolt a for-profit armon later, whatever OpenAI's ownhistory suggests. Last stated 3 years ago 18 Mar 2024 SA Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. — tap to centre the map on it A tiny language model inventing aplausible-sounding name is the samephenomenon as a large oneconfidently stating a false fact. Last stated 9 months ago 12 Feb 2026 AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
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