There’s a slowly developing high-minded ideology around valorizing maintenance. I’m going to bet it will fail. Humans never step up to the ennobling demands of a high-maintenance world, we tend to blow it up so it’s either more interesting or lower maintenance
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There’s that theory of collapse that says societies collapse when they get too complex. Too complex = demands more maintenance than humans can endure.
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“Modern” epochs begin when there is enough technological surplus to systematically buy present conveniences at the cost of future maintenance debt. They end when we declare maintenance bankruptcy. Not saying this is a good thing. It’s just who we are as a species.
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This is also why the idea of permaculture above a fairly low technological level is unstable
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Maintenance releases, service packs, security updates blah blah blah. Computers live for maintenance. Just wish they didn’t drag us into it.
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Natural evolution tends to either automate maintenance needs or throw a closed fun loop around them. We mostly throw an open bureaucratic loop at them and then try to motivate with extrinsic carrots/sticks. Blech.
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Maybe there’s an alternative conception of AI as SM. Self-maintaining systems. IBM at one point was trying something stuffily named autonomic computing that was sorta this idea. Forget intelligence and recursive self-improvement. You invent self-maintenance and you’re kinda done.
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We already live in the highest maintenance society ever, almost entirely due to one technology: TV. Every day a big chunk of humans watch 2-4 hours of life from a high-interestingness/low-maintenance fictional metaverse, go to bed for a bit, and then do 8h maintenance work
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Shit how much more do maintenance priests want? They act like we spend most of our time having fun and neglecting maintenance. No we watch fake people have fake fun on TV. Even billionaires begin and end days with maintenance chores: teeth brushing. At least that has mint flavor.
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