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Langdon Winner suggests there is a kind of conservation of life force: “Insofar as men pour their own life into the apparatus, their own vitality is that much diminished. The transference of human energy and character leaves men empty, although they may never acknowledge the void.”
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
It shows as well in their general attitude toward art, which as critic Philip Maciak [pointed out](https://newrepublic.com/article/172449/mrs-davis-peacock-review-weirder-than-artificial-intelligence), treats it as “a problem to be solved … an uncomfortably irreducible remainder to optimizing the world.” AI proponents would like to reveal artistic creation to be a gimmick, and such notions as “genius” and “inspiration” — or the possibility of aesthetic judgment in general — as tricks, as “glib illusions.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
Partisan divides widen as we lose shared sources of information and ways to communicate across differences — society fragments without a common baseline understanding of truth.
The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.
Westenberg
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