Annihilating all life on Earth because we became worse at tuning pianos? It’s absolutely deranged.
They need to get grounded. Workout, sit under a tree, hug a friend, whatever floats their boat.
Annihilating all life on Earth because we became worse at tuning pianos? It’s absolutely deranged.
They need to get grounded. Workout, sit under a tree, hug a friend, whatever floats their boat.
I doubt that this is what the author intended, but it could be interpreted to refer to human's cultural ability to pay attention to small, seemingly unimportant (if not unseen) details.
Take climate change: most informed people think this is a job for science, this is where we should exert our effort and invest our funds. But this overlooks that individual human opinion and volition plays an absolutely massive role in the problem, at many levels. From where I'm sitting, this problem is not even on science's radar, beyond general complaints about those stupid people who ruin everything (overlooking that it was science that invented the technologies that went on to enable climate change in the first place...but you see, that doesn't count, it is(!) not a part of "the" chain of causality). Metaphysical causality is something else that is basically not on science's radar, or in their Theory of "Everything".
But of course, all of this this is pedantic, and can be safely ignored, or better yet, suppressed.
Deranged? Seriously?
Did it not occur to you that the statement was humorous hyperbole, did you actively choose to reject the idea, or are you commenting in bad faith?
Huh, maybe I was a little hasty. Looking again, it does seem like a joke.
I still think it’s kinda off. It doesn’t quite land. Like I’m not sure what takeaway they are trying to give. That ambiguity makes it much less funny.
It would have worked better if they connected it to the point about not automating away these skills / expertise with shittier versions, which is a great point and would be nice to end on.
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