AI

Elon Musk is claiming that AI will take all our jobs, thus allowing us to twiddle our thumbs and order up from computers all that we want or need (if anyone can afford it)... this while the world is overrun with meaningless stuff and while social media sucks the lifeblood from our mental health and the lives or our kids.

He also warns that social media is addicting our kids to algorithm supplied dopamines, likely turning them to dopes.

The one remaining occupation that's not a hobby will likely be that of psychological therapist who will be needed for our children as well as for ourselves.

In the meantime, if just one job is lost to AI, perhaps it should be his own.

Yesterday I finished assembly of a third toddler sized rocking chair. I can assure you that it was not made by AI, and the wood used actually grew as a tree. The carving, although simple, was done by hand, with far less perfection than Elon Musk's vision of the world could offer, and with more joy.

My essay on AI, Misinformation and Manual Arts Training can still be found and read free on Front Porch Republic.

Make, fix and create. Our very lives depend upon it.