homo hortus1d ago
Ulrike Hahn

good piece!

“the development and application of methods, the training of minds, the creation of people who know how to think about hard problems. If you hand that process to a machine, you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed.”

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

Apr 3 at 3:45pmWeb
Show threadFlorian Marquardt2d ago
@UlrikeHahn Indeed, a very good piece, articulating aspects I've been chatting about with colleagues but could not express that well myself.
Show threadLeonardo Uieda2d ago
@UlrikeHahn excellent! Thanks for sharing
Show threadSteve Lindsay2d ago
@UlrikeHahn Very thought provoking. "The experiment succeeded because the human supervisor had done the grunt work, years ago, that the machine is now supposedly liberating us from....Making the models smarter doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem harder to see. "
Show threadhomo hortus1d ago
"What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking; there's the real danger." Frank Herbert in Dune