Thursday, June 16, 2016
More delightful Disruption
Google starts to threaten its own supporters.
As usual the bait is attractive: One company can perform all those tiresome iterations of applying different chemicals to different pathogens. Supposedly this frees up the Real Intellects to do Pure Thought.
The bait itself will DISRUPT the conventional order in Tenure World. When grad students are no longer needed, where will the next generation of Pure Intellects come from? What will students do while they're waiting to be picked as the next generation of Pure Intellects? How will they be picked? Answer: by popularity and attractiveness.
But we know the switch is coming soon. It always does. Google doesn't stop. Negative feedback is a characteristic of life, and Google is the opposite of life. The Pure Intellects are next in the unemployment line.
Pure Thought is the easiest thing of all to automate, because it doesn't require tiresome building of precise robotic gadgets to dispense and measure chemicals accurately without running wild and exploding the building. Pure Thought is the native language of computers. And when you disconnect Pure Thought from human hands, you get CRAZY Pure Thought. We already have too much CRAZY Pure Thought, as in the entire fields of Economics and "Climate Change", or the LHC experiments designed to generate black holes and eliminate the universe. We don't need MORE.
A few of the Pure Thinkers seem to be vaguely aware that the floodwater is lapping at their own jobs. Nothing will change until the flood takes out a few thousand Tech Tyrants and leaves them permanently unemployable. 
Labels: Emersonian justice
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