It's that discernment that's difficult. We can certainly machine-gun our approach to creativity, but then that ever-critical judgment is needed. That sense of "never getting there," rings true to the creative life—and it's what everyone has to accept if they are to enter this world.
It is very easy to assume that when discernment is the difficult part of creativity, everyone with the same level of creativity have similar amount of discernment to work with. The counter to this approach is that most "creatives" are very bad at discernment, and relies on rhetoric/marketing to make themselves more valuable than they seems. Thus automation becomes a cleansing fire against these "philosophical zombies" (or Roonian "wordcels"). https://archive.ph/1OU8Phttps://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words
I don't think people have similar discernment levels, rather both discernment and creativity need to be developed. The issue is that we have been trained not even to try. Instead the vast majority are conditioned to consume and, because they have not even developed their discernment through creative projects and attempts of their own, are now being trained to like poorer and poorer quality.
This is how the AI problem will likely be solved in the end: entire generations of anxious kids raised on computer-generated "art" who will come to prefer it over that which was made by human souls. The uncanny valley becomes undetectable, or future lemmings are taught to desire diving in.
It's that discernment that's difficult. We can certainly machine-gun our approach to creativity, but then that ever-critical judgment is needed. That sense of "never getting there," rings true to the creative life—and it's what everyone has to accept if they are to enter this world.
It is very easy to assume that when discernment is the difficult part of creativity, everyone with the same level of creativity have similar amount of discernment to work with. The counter to this approach is that most "creatives" are very bad at discernment, and relies on rhetoric/marketing to make themselves more valuable than they seems. Thus automation becomes a cleansing fire against these "philosophical zombies" (or Roonian "wordcels"). https://archive.ph/1OU8P https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words
It is utterly terrifying to realize that this theory is simultaneously scientifically observable and historically valid as "bad grammarians" manifesting as the predecessor of "elite overproduction". Even if fate is non-existent, knowing that some people are "midwits" or "NPCs" demonstrates the spiritual absence of a significant portion of humanity. Certain "common sense" principles falls apart in favor of heterodox or "ironic" alternatives. https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/the-verbal-tilt-model https://archive.ph/lgkik https://novum.substack.com/p/elite-overproduction-a-story-of-russia https://eggreport.substack.com/p/anti-antiheroism/comment/10734566
Attempt at explaining this theory is done here? https://bradnbutter.substack.com/p/porn-martyrs-cyborgs-part-1 https://bradnbutter.substack.com/p/porn-martyrs-cyborgs-part-2
I don't think people have similar discernment levels, rather both discernment and creativity need to be developed. The issue is that we have been trained not even to try. Instead the vast majority are conditioned to consume and, because they have not even developed their discernment through creative projects and attempts of their own, are now being trained to like poorer and poorer quality.
This is how the AI problem will likely be solved in the end: entire generations of anxious kids raised on computer-generated "art" who will come to prefer it over that which was made by human souls. The uncanny valley becomes undetectable, or future lemmings are taught to desire diving in.