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/// ... but then I woke up and certain people were still running the world. ///
If the robots are rising, it's in the service of those people, who in a steady churn of evolution, run the companies who produce returns on investment -- enabled by efficiencies, which translate into fewer people with meaningful work. Don't worry so much about the robots as in whose service they work, and for what social purposes.
We've already seen the evolution that's in play producing increasingly strange results, as individuals on the winning end of things detach themselves from consequence and from the full run of lessons that are available to be learned in the transformations they are shepherding. The present ruling group has allied itself all but formally with a hostile foreign power run by people who would like to see the end of liberal democracy (or republics -- pick your favorite word for the context). Last time around, 60 million people died in World War II as a result of excursions into extremism in concentration of power, and dreams of dominion expressed by various ideologies. We are presently on a very mistaken path.
Part of that system of mistakes is misrecognition of the drivers of the loss of meaningful work for many people. Mechanization, and thought towards how to domesticate it into human life without a world conflagration built around retrograde ideology and mendacity, has somehow been lost in the mix driving political movements, to date. We need to recover a rational capacity to address problems within our present governing framework, or we will lose that framework, and those decisions of how to proceed will be made by plays of force.
/// Getting paid for it might become obsolete. But the joy and skill? ///
Thing is, there has to be work of some kind to provide for that. We've always seen grey and black markets, underground economies (our country was burn with them practically in its DNA), and one development trajectory could be imagined to proceed through such a path. What alternative does consumerism in an "economy without people" making things provide? I offer this just projectively, not as some kind of thought-out framework of any way forward. But being priced out of essentials of living (food, shelter, health care, etc.), as human labor becomes more and more costly relative to mechanization, and as taxes to support human labor become in differential terms more difficult to sustain, doesn't have a great outcome in the mean, either.
Phil
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I got call from mentor who is the cheif scientist of the 2nd largest greenhouse tomato grower in North America (260+ acres of greenhouse) he is coming to town in May for the cannabis industry expo and invited me to dinner to talk about partnering on robotics for cannabis cultivation.
Can yiou ask your members if anyone is interested in working on a robotic bud trimmer, SCROG trainer or tissue culturing robot?
Right now I m building a setero cmera from low cost web cm to identity what to cut. I have made a 3D printed mold fro soft robot fingers to handle the plant.
I need someone who lives in DC were growing cannabs is legal.
Peter James
On March 24, 2017 at 10:03 AM Julia Longtin <julia....@gmail.com> wrote:
y mentor
+n!
Brautigan ran around distributing that poem on mimeo sheets, as I recall.
Anyone here remember the scent of mimeograph copies?
I don't know about headaches (they've slipped my memory), but the smell as I recall it was sweetish and pungent. I liked it. With the strong limbic weave-in of olfactory memory, it indexes a whole network of recollections from junior high school through early college.
Sliding hard into bases, on the wooden gymnasium floor, in whiffle ball, is among them. It's really a texture of recollection, almost a thread count or type of weave, but in polysensory associations tied into the cross-sections of narratives.
Phil
It's time for a montage!
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