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Artificial neural networks—the precursor for today’s deep learning—were designed to address some of the differences pointed out by von Neumann. And reinforcement learning, through which an AI program interacts with an environment and learn from feedback, was based on the stimulus-response theories of Behaviorist psychology.
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There is, as one assumes there must be, a countervailing or centrifugal force that also operates in our society, but this returns to the countryside not the residue of the land’s growth to refertilize the fields, not the learning and experience of the greater world ready to go to work locally, and not – or not often – even a just monetary compensation. What are returned, instead, are overpriced manufactured goods, pollution in various forms, and garbage.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
But it is also inadequate to naturalize the desire to succeed on our broken world’s terms, as if everyone has always been awaiting the opportunity to fully monetize their existence, seeking that supreme apotheosis of alienation where work and life finally become one and unthinkable otherwise. I don’t think it is our fault that capitalism sucks.
The Lowest Tide
Rob Horning
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