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Stewart Brand

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
422 total appearances

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And I think that's generally good because it forces us, arguing with robots is itself instructive.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

It's frustrating and often maddening.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

But it's part of, mostly AIs are incredibly useful.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And when they're not useful, we are learning more.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

Maybe use a different AI.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

Maybe you try to avoid having an AI look at their problem and get an actual person to look at it.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And because there's so many social media available, any particular

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

kind of apparatus is going to have an online support group, a fan group, where they're

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

rebuilding some old particular old car.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And 50 people from all over the world are deeply engaged in rebuilding that kind of old car.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And they know where to either get or create anew the parts that you need.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

Or maybe some of them have decided they're going to get a printer and print the parts, and they'll sell them to the other people in the group.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And they'll encourage each other, and they'll be amazed by some people that have got an incredible example of the thing that they all care about.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And so you learn...

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

of what skill looks like and what it takes to have that kind of skill.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

I think this aspect of the kind of golden era we expected with the coming of the internet has actually come to pass.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

And some of the commercial apparatus does go toward uncidification.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

We also learn how to work around that.