The agricultural revolution devalued food, the industrial revolution devalued work, the information revolution devalued information and knowledge… It seems that the object of each revolutionary change is ultimately devalued.
With AI, the authorship is gone. Algorithms can now write fugues that are indistinguishable from Bach’s. Why should we rely on personal knowledge and conclusions, when we can have unerring algorithms? The problem becomes – who controls them?
Two independent observers, looking at the same thing, never see the same thing. They just call it the same, as a matter of consensus. Objective reality is an illusion.
