Degrading is calling an achievement we hold people in high regard who accomplish stupid because a machine can do it.
Not sure you worded this as intended ?
Anyway if I read you correctly, this assumes you believe the idea of self and ego have anything to do with it.
Humans should treat ants, lab rats and each other with equal respect.
I don’t believe we should avoid self-degradation because we think we’re smart or special, but for completely opposite reasons. We are mostly lucky we have what we have because something bigger than us, call it God, nature whatever, has provided that existence. When we degrade one another, we degrade that magic. This is where we fuck up time and time again. I’m talking about the water you drink, the food you eat and the air your breathe, the inspiration for neural networks etc. We take that for granted.
I liken it to the idea that humans killed God, the idea of God and morals etc, so we could do terrible things to the world and living things. We just got rid of the idea someone is looking over our shoulder because it made wars and genocides easier to do. Killing God got rid of a whole lot of moral baggage.
Not sure you worded this as intended ?
Anyway if I read you correctly, this assumes you believe the idea of self and ego have anything to do with it.
Humans should treat ants, lab rats and each other with equal respect.
I don’t believe we should avoid self-degradation because we think we’re smart or special, but for completely opposite reasons. We are mostly lucky we have what we have because something bigger than us, call it God, nature whatever, has provided that existence. When we degrade one another, we degrade that magic. This is where we fuck up time and time again. I’m talking about the water you drink, the food you eat and the air your breathe, the inspiration for neural networks etc. We take that for granted.
I liken it to the idea that humans killed God, the idea of God and morals etc, so we could do terrible things to the world and living things. We just got rid of the idea someone is looking over our shoulder because it made wars and genocides easier to do. Killing God got rid of a whole lot of moral baggage.