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July
@july
Renaissance for the humanities Part of the Renaissance Period (1400s~1500s ish) was a rediscovery of the humanities and classics after a long Middle Ages. It was the ability to have a new take on Plato, Socrates and a new interpretation of Roman texts as well. It was to be able to have new emotions, new interpretations and a new meaning of what came before - politically, socially, artistically and economically. Art for example was still religious (not independent of it till the Enlightenment, The Reformation) but now the religious figures showed human emotion - art before the Renaissance did not. I do think this coming shift with AI is going to prompt and change a lot of what we think about the humanities - a reinterpretation of who we are, and how we can represent ourselves. The story we tell ourselves about who we are will once again be changed and reinterpreted— and with that I do believe our humanities will once again change
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
100% In addition to everything you said, here's something else: the biggest part of learning is having a question. A.I. – by increasing doing the things that we humans have always done best amongst beings, but better and faster than ourselves – will make humans questionable to ourselves again. I think the fantastic success of modern natural science – including the way it has replaced religion – has unknowingly made many of us feel like we are already "known" to ourselves. While most of us in this position feel some kind of panging emptiness in our self-knowledge that came to us from without, not within, it is very unclear what to do with that feeling. Every seeker needs a question. "This bot is incredible. How am I different though? Am I different? What does it mean to be a human being?" There is a tradition of thinkers across time who have taken this question deeply seriously – they are friends and companions in our fresh searches.
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