So many of our current problems—disdain for the humanities in tech circles, the way streaming services have treated film history, general disregard for human life—stem from the fact that we’ve forgotten that some things have intrinsic value.
What seems to animate many of the guys who are hyping machine-generated art and writing is a kind of nihilism—a sense that no work of art is inherently better than another, a jealous contempt for actual creators. This is what happens when all art becomes content.
@SketchesbyBoze I just started writing an essay on this topic a few days ago! This issue is driving me nuts. Thank you for your post
@SketchesbyBoze I once asked Carole Stephenson, the former head of the Stentor Alliance of Canadian telecoms, come speak to my students. She emphasized her background was in the humanities which gave her unique insight (compared to techies) into how people worked together
@SketchesbyBoze I was a STEM major in college and loved, did well in and had fun in my humanities classes. My grades were better in those classes than my science classes. You really have a good point. We are devaluing them even more by pushing kids away from post secondary humanities.
@SketchesbyBoze I strongly agree with your point in a general sense, but the deconstruction of intrinsic value has played an essential role in humanistic study in academia over the last several decades. Many esteem this as a worthy pursuit, and I wouldn't group it with AI/devaluing of humanities
@SketchesbyBoze Further evidence that STEM without STEAM is hollow and empty.