I have had this reflection a few weeks ago. To me, this also resonates with James Brown’ song “it’s a man’s man’a man’s world”
Beyond tending to basic necessities (which we're getting ever-increasingly efficient at), there are only two kinds of human activities: entertainment creator and entertainment consumer. Most of what we do falls into one or the other
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Wow, that's the least wise claim I've seen on Twitter today. What a narrow perspective
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So scientific endeavors are entertainment? Curiosity and exploration are not entertainment in my opinion, but neither basic necessities
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And if you are playing something, you assume both roles?
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What about knowledge maintainer and knowledge discoverer?
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Where are washing machines? Basic necessities or entertainment?
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when AI can create better entertainment than humans or nature can, we enter a wireheaded society.
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It already can. No worries. The day Humans are inspired to innovate a new form of entertainment is the day both shall rise.
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there is something further than both
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