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| comment | | "parent_author":"rok-sivante",<br>"parent_permlink":"how-steemit-is-convincing-me-that-becoming-a-hybrid-human-robot-might-not-be-such-an-evil-horrible-thing-afterall",<br>"author":"bradvanceauthor",<br>"permlink":"re-rok-sivante-how-steemit-is-convincing-me-that-becoming-a-hybrid-human-robot-might-not-be-such-an-evil-horrible-thing-afterall-20160723t192018262z",<br>"title":"",<br>"body":">Imagine if you didn't have to sit down at a computer and spend hours typing out all the articulate details of the ideas in your head to form a well-composed article or book.\n\nI have a couple objections to that and can see a couple problems.\n\nFirst,<br> even the most powerful chip set can't substitute for the work that the brain is doing,<br> at its natural pace - that is,<br> creating new content that is unique to *you.* That only *you* can dream up. Otherwise,<br> the chip set is only converting data into words,<br> <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/media\/2011\/04\/18\/robot-journalist-writes-a-better-story-than-human-sports-reporter\/\">like this sports writing bot<\/a>. The only color commentary is preloaded by its human programmers. So you wouldn't actually be learning.\n\nSecond,<br> unless you loaded your entire mind into the chipset,<br> you'd fail to make new connections and deductions based on experience,<br> which your brain helpfully throws up when exposed to new,<br> but connected,<br> information. You couldn't say,<br> wow,<br> that Tarzan movie really is deceptive,<br> it makes it look like the natives banished the Belgians from the Congo,<br> when in reality I know from *<a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial\/dp\/0618001905\">King Leopold's Ghost<\/a>* that the horror and suffering went on for decades. And,<br> I'm able to draw on all the other examples of imperial colonialism to contrast and compare.\n\nWhat I'm getting at is the difference between *information* and *knowledge.* If you're still going to use the brain to come up with solutions,<br> you have to respect the pace it works at.\n\nFinally...there's so much *pleasure* to be had in reading,<br> allowing knowledge to dawn on you organically (literally in this case). And some of that pleasure is *difficulty*. It *should* be hard for me to understand HTF Steemit manages to really truly pay all these $ out of nowhere,<br> because of how rewarding it is to the brain to solve it.\n\nTake away that reward system,<br> and the brain atrophies,<br> and all the knowledge in the world won't wake it up.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"life\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/media\/2011\/04\/18\/robot-journalist-writes-a-better-story-than-human-sports-reporter\/\",<br>\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial\/dp\/0618001905\" " |
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