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AyanamiKaine • today at 10:24 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

While reading "The Nemesis of Creativity"

It uses a Chinese sage to illustrate the fight against using machines:

"I have heard my teacher say that whoever uses machines does all his work like a machine. He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine, and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul. Uncertainty in the strivings of the soul is something which does not agree with honest sense. It is not that I do not know of such things; I am ashamed to use them."

It resonates with me similarly as the post.


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na1026 • today at 10:45 AM

> he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity.

A lot of these AI guys seem pretty simple to me...

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