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As Heidegger pointed out in _"The question concerning technology"_ the driving mindset behind industrial technology is to turn everything into a (fungible) standing resource -- instrumentalizing it and robbing it of any intrinsic meaning.

Maybe because CS is more engineering than science (at least as far as what drives the sociology), a lot of people approach AI from the same industrial perspective -- be it applications to math, science, art, coding, and whatever else. Ideas like _the bitter lesson_ only reinforce the zeitgeist.




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