Is It Better Not to Know?

 

Here is a heartfelt plea to allow people to code.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/12/lost-job-learn-code-ai-humans-skills

Some quotes:

One of the most gratifying aspects of web design and development is the lateral thinking involved.

The rush when a harebrained idea improbably works is like nothing else.

The spectre of AI will be used as a threat and a cudgel by those who see creative pursuit as only possessing worth if it can be monetised, but they’re wrong.

A machine has no capacity for self-expression, no compulsion to communicate: this is who I was, this is how I felt and this is what I stood for.

How do we tell him that some problems are beyond our ken, because of the Four Pieces Limit, and we need help with them?

Or do we leave him happy in doing what he does, without ever realising he is asking humanity not to transcend its limits, because it would inconvenience his self-regard?