The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the

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The tl;dr is that complexity of society requires many people and skillsets (cognitive and otherwise) to manage that complexity, and a lot of wealth is generated by people who are good at this. Coordination problems are real problems and the default for complex societies. The Dilbert model of society is implicitly one where engineers and... See more

The tl;dr is that complexity of society requires many people and skillsets (cognitive and otherwise) to manage that complexity, and a lot of wealth is generated by people who are good at this. Coordination problems are real problems and the default for complex societies. The Dilbert model of society is implicitly one where engineers and... See more